Honorable mention awarded by the jury composed of: Jill Godmilow, Zorka Wollny and Krzysztof Garbaczewski.
Structuralism is a video interpretation of a poem by Czesław Miłosz of the same title. According to Claude Lévi-Strauss, the structure of the human mind defines the form of the cultural text s/he creates like a matrix. This is influenced by neither time nor the place where such text was created. One of the fundamental philosophical questions is how objects and notions exist. Can something exist simply because there is a name for it in the language? On the other hand: does excessive depreciation of the role of the subject facilitate cognition? What is cognition at all, are we not left to howl in light of our own stupidity?
Róża Duda was born in Lublin in 1993. In 2013, she began to study painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow; she studies at the painting studio of Prof. Andrzej Badnarczyk and the interdisciplinary studio of Grzegorz Sztwiertnia and Zbigniew Sałaj. She works with painting, video art and installation. She is an active member of the Krakow artistic community. Her most important achievement to date is a solo exhibition The Observatory held at the Video Gallery of the Małopolska Garden of Arts in Krakow. The artist also participated in numerous group exhibitions, such as Spojrzenia / Perspectives presented at the National Museum in Krakow; Boredom presented as part of the Student Art Week in Krakow; Enlightenments organised as part of the Festival of Science in Krakow, and many others. Duda has also received a mention of honour at the Nationwide Plein-Air of Art Schools in Góry Wielkie and received the scholarship awarded by the Vice-Chancellor of the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow for the best students in the 2015/2016 academic year.