Kuba Dorabialski
Crying
Single channel 4K video with 4 channel sound, 18'42", 2023.
Twenty black and white photographs, pigment print on cotton rag, 50cm x 50cm.
Hand poured bronze cascades, size and number variable.
What does it mean to be homesick on colonised land?
Kuba Dorabialski’s Crying is an exhibition of photographs, sculpture, and video that explores themes of unabashed emotion, romantic love, geographic and cultural displacement, and starlings, an invasive bird species introduced into Australia in the 19th century.
Taking the structure of a fictional documentary, Crying tells the story of a Polish migrant living on Wiradjuri Country and the bittersweet process of her assimilation into an emotive landscape teeming with so many of the markers of European imperialism. An ode to the unique rural terrain of the Central West of New South Wales, Crying continues the Polish-born Sydney-based artist’s abiding interests in language, mysticism, political history and the personal poetic.
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Exhibition curated by Daniel Mudie Cunningham
Developed with support from Tesha Malott - Verge Gallery
First exhibited at Verge Gallery, August to September 2023
Toured to Orange Regional Gallery, June to August 2024
This project was supported by the NSW Government through Create NSW.
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ESSAYS, INTERVIEWS AND REVIEWS:
Curatorial Essay - Daniel Mudie Cunningham
WRITER, DIRECTOR, CINEMATOGRAPHY, POST-PRODUCTION, MUSIC
Kuba Dorabialski
CAST:
Zoe Rodwell
Izabella Mackiewicz
Kuba Dorabialski
PRODUCTION ASSISTANT:
Szymon Dorabialski
Car Supplied by:
lakovos Amperidis
Thank you to:
Daniel Mudie Cunningham
Tesha Malott
Morgan Hogg
Anthia Balis
Min Wong
Lucy Stranger and Bradley Hammond at Orange Regional Gallery
Nick Breedon
Hayley West
Tobias Gilbert
Damien March
Jacqui Mills
Victoria Firth-Smith
Arts OutWest
Alex Wisser at Cementa
Ivan Muniz Reed
Consuelo Cavaniglia
Lauren Carroll Harris
Astrid Lorange
Craig Bender and Vera Hong
Sarah Empey
Sarah Barron
Warren, Matteo and Rosie at High Res Digital
Gotaro Uematsu
Special thanks to:
Ella Barclay
Katy B Plummer
Filmed and photographed on the lands of the Wiradjuri people.
Always was, always will be Aboriginal land