HARRIET POZNANSKY

This video documents ‘HOT & COLD’ a multimedia painting and drawing installation created by Harriet Poznansky and 'Reciprocal Gaze' a performance directed by Harriet Poznansky and choreographed in collaboration wit Alice Polli, 2023.

Following invitation from WAY OUT EAST, University of East London, to participate in their Container Space Residency and Exhibition Programme, Poznansky created a multimedia painting installation featuring new artworks made during the three month residency period.

The residency allowed Poznansky the time and resources to developed with greater scale and ambition work and ideas from ‘DREAM GIRLS DREAM’, a series of drawings she had made previously that referenced a soft porn calendar Poznansky found in an abandoned car garage on the Old Kent Road in 2020.

Poznansky’s fascination with the soft porn calendar as an image object published annually by ‘STEEL’ specifically for car garages, continued to drive the creation of ‘HOT & COLD’ and ‘Reciprocal Gaze’. Which used painting, drawing, print making, sound, performance and site specific response to the 28ft industrial container, to materialise themes of natural and mechanical time, desire and fetish, subjectivity and the subconscious, production and reproduction and representations of the female body throughout time, art history, and contemporary media.

Works on paper:

(multiple works with individual titles), charcoal on archers watercolour paper, 300gms, 60x80cm, 2023

(multiple works with individual titles), acrylic ink, charcoal and heat transfer ink on newsprint 60cmx80cm, 2023

Paintings:

'the context is in the container', indigo pigment on cavas, stretcher bars, 60x80cm, 2023

'dream girl gone wild', metallic acrylic pigment, charcoal, oil, collage on canvas, 120x160cm, 2023

'inside a dream girl 1', heat transfer ink print, charcoal on un-stretched restoration fabric, 50x120cm, 2023

'inside a dream girl 2' heat transfer ink print, charcoal on un-stretched restoration fabric, 50x120cm, 2023

'the context is in the kitchen', oil, acrylic, ink, indigo pigment on restoration fabric, 160x220cm, 2023

'dream girls union', ink stamp, charcoal, indigo pigment on restoration canvas, 80x80cm, 2023

'fertility deity', ink on patterned silk, 120x220cm, 2023

'nipple dreamscape' heat transfer ink print on restoration canvas, 50 x 200cm, 2023

'dream girl making a splash' ink, acrylic, oil, indigo pigment, charcoal, heat ink transfer print, collage on restoration canvas, tab order grabber, 85 x 120, 2023

'dream girl protecting her heart' , ink, indigo pigment, charcoal, heat ink transfer print, collage on restoration canvas, tab order grabber, 80 x 120, 2023

'dream girl taking a seat', ink, acrylic, oil, indigo pigment, charcoal, heat ink transfer print, collage on restoration canvas, tab order grabber, 75 x 120, 2023

Performance: Custom Lace Veil (Harriet Poznansky), custom leather trousers (Joseph Adeosun), high heel boots, used car tire

Sound: speaker, digital audio file featuring Gong

Wall paint: emulsion (party favour)

Corrugated steel: with small paintings using indigo pigment, acrylic, heat transfer ink print, restoration fabric and magnets.

Performer: Alice Polli

Documentation video: Filmed and Edited by Bianca M Jechianu

Supported and funded by University of East London, as part of their WAY OUT EAST, Container Space Residency and Exhibition Programme 2023