Description
Director Lea Glob spent 13 years observing her film's protagonist, artist Apolonia Sokol, as she attempts to rediscover herself in different countries, far from home. The artist is from Belarus, and today many Belarusian creators share her experience. Apolonia and Lea will join art curator Anna Chistoserdova in an online conversation to discuss what it means when art becomes a way of life and the sacrifices that must be made in order to pursue it.
Language of the event: English with consecutive translation to Belarusian
Watch the event:YouTube
Participants
Lea Glob
Lea Glob was born in 1982 in Denmark. She studied cinema at the National Film School of Denmark. She graduated with the short film Meeting My Father Kasper Tophat (2011). Glob co-directed Olmo & The Seagull (2014) with Petra Costa on a grant from CPH:DOX, which allowed her to also continue the film on young artist Apolonia Sokol. A collaborative approach to cinema was also at the center of Venus: Let's Talk About Sex (2016). Apolonia, Apolonia is her debut as a solo director, and it received the main award at IDFA 2022 in the international competition. In her work, Glob insists on using both body and camera as means to understand the world around her and cinema as a way to ask questions tied to identity, gender, and one's place within society.
Apolonia Sokol
Apolonia Sokol (born in 1988 in Paris, France) is a French figurative painter of Belarusian, Polish, and Danish descent. Her work has been widely exhibited in France, Denmark, Belgium, and the USA. She is known for her autobiographical approach to painting, using the art of portraiture as a tool for political empowerment in paintings inspired by art historical canon to address issues around feminism and queer culture.
Anna Chistoserdova
Anna Chistoserdova, born in 1982, is now based in Berlin, Germany. Managing partner, co-founder of two independent galleries, Podzemka and Ў gallery of contemporary art, in Minsk, Belarus; co-founder, manager, and curator of NGO Ambasada Kultury, Vilnius, Lithuania. Since 2022, Anna has been a co-initiator, co-curator, and manager of the International Coalition of Culture Workers in Solidarity With Ukraine, an online platform called antiwarcoalition.art. Chistoserdova is a manager of the PerspAktiv project, a program of art residencies in Germany and Poland for Belarusian culture workers. Anna got a European Diploma in Cultural Project Management and Cultural Policy (Marcel Hicter Association, Brussels). Anna's areas of interest are: contemporary art, socially engaged art, international cultural cooperation and networking, cultural policy, cultural management, and non-academic education.