During Melbourne's 2021 lockdown, Gosia Wlodarczak undertook an 'isolation residency' in Melbourne's Royal Arcade.
Funded by the City Of Melbourne as part of the Flash Forward Laneway Project. For 21 consecutive days, Wlodarczak was contained within a shopfront where she undertook performance drawing on the glass facade, walls, ceilings and herself of Shop 8-10.
Wlodarczak says "I always draw my environment as I see it, in real time – tracing and re-tracing the visible. The intention is to record the present time continuous moment, to archive my space-time, all bits of present and my mind’s realisation of now. I try to translate my living energy into the drawn line.
The line I draw is shaped into outlines of real things that my eye registers by its every glance. Because I consistently draw what I see – never from imagination—the structure of my works is built up from myriads of “frozen” glances (moments of “looking at”) captured by my eyes and drawn as linear shapes to form a visual archive of the specific time-space.
In the work, I have been deliberately denying myself the complex stimuli of my senses (especially sence of sight). I am performing/creating my work while enclosed inside a small empty room with black walls, ceiling and floor."