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Magda Stawarska, Music and Silence, (still), 2023.
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Connecting Thin Black Lines 1985 – 2025
Magda Stawarska reimagines her moving image installation Music and Silence (2023) for this unique presentation with a live performance by pianist Zeynep Özsuca.
In this new screening of Music and Silence, Stawarska has selected two out of four videos of her multi-channel video installation, focusing on a musician practicing in a music academy. One cornerstone of the film is the architecture of the richly decorated Academy of Music, Łódź, originally constructed in 1904 as a private residence, while the other is the cellist, Alexandra Rosol, practicing Leoš Janáček’s Pohadka (1910). Playing alone, the cellist performs while recalling the missing piano part from memory.
For this special presentation, Özsuca responds with a live piano performance. In some moments, Özsuca plays the piano part of Pohadka, in time with the cellist on screen. While in others, Özsuca diverges from the recorded music, bringing in new sounds and layers of temporality, creating a textured soundscape of diegetic and non-diegetic music.
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In this new screening of Music and Silence, Stawarska has selected two out of four videos of her multi-channel video installation, focusing on a musician practicing in a music academy. One cornerstone of the film is the architecture of the richly decorated Academy of Music, Łódź, originally constructed in 1904 as a private residence, while the other is the cellist, Alexandra Rosol, practicing Leoš Janáček’s Pohadka (1910). Playing alone, the cellist performs while recalling the missing piano part from memory.
For this special presentation, Özsuca responds with a live piano performance. In some moments, Özsuca plays the piano part of Pohadka, in time with the cellist on screen. While in others, Özsuca diverges from the recorded music, bringing in new sounds and layers of temporality, creating a textured soundscape of diegetic and non-diegetic music.
Click here to explore the full exhibition and event programme.
Bios
Born in Poland in 1976, Magda Stawarska’s multi-disciplinary practice combines moving image, sound, silkscreen prints and painting. Her work often arches around her distinct practice of ‘inner listening’, through which she explores the connections between personal memory, place, and sound, uncovering hidden and conflicting histories. Recent solo and group exhibitions include Artistto-Artist, Frieze, London; Drift, Yamamoto Keiko Rochaix, London; Plaited Time / Deep Water, Sharjah Art Foundation, Sharjah, UAE; A Fine Toothed Comb, HOME, Manchester; Rewinding Internationalism, Villa Arson, Nice, and Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven. Her work is in public collections including the Government Art Collection, London, the Arts Council Collection, London and the Sharjah Art Foundation Collection. She is a Research Fellow for Artlab Contemporary Print Studios at the University of Central Lancashire and lives and works in the UK.
The Turkish pianist Zeynep Özsuca has performed worldwide as a soloist, chamber musician and accompanist. Having earned degrees in solo piano and accompaniment in the US and Germany, she currently lives in London and pursues her career as concert pianist, repetiteur and educator. Zeynep has worked with conductors such as Gustavo Dudamel, Paavo Järvi, Sir Simon Rattle and Sir Antonio Pappano, and acted as rehearsal pianist and recital partner for singers Sir Willard White, Magdalena Kozená, Rolando Villazón, Gerald Finley to name a few. She has been working with renowned opera companies and orchestras like the LSO, Berlin Philharmonic, BBC Philharmonic/Concert/Symohony Orchestras, LPO, Philharmonia, Staatsoper Berlin, AIX-EN-PROVENCE Festival, ROH and Glyndebourne Festival Opera. As a chamber musician, she has performed on prestigious stages including the Berlin Philharmonie, Wigmore Hall, Wiener Konzerthaus, Elbphilharmonie, The Concertgebouw as well as live radio broadcasts on Deutschlandfunk, Deutschlandradio, RBB Kulturradio, RNE, BBC 3 and 4(UK), alongside co-hosting the BBC Young Musician Podcast. She also regularly appears in concert with her duo partners saxophonist Jess Gillam, trombonist Peter Moore and trumpeter Aaron Akugbo. Zeynep has a close working relationship with the Guildhall School of Music and Drama where she has acted as accompanist, music director of opera scenes and currently as lecturer of the Opera Skills course.
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07:00 pm
Thu, 24 Jul 2025
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