A Łódź?, information
video performance, 04:03, 2018
As part of the performance, referring to ritual fire trials, I step on a heated electric stove. The stinging surface makes me change my position quickly and reapeat the word „ouch”. At the same time, the small surface of the stove makes in difficult to maintain balance. I set camera up high me to give the viewer the impression of looking at the situatuin from above. In the video, I also added the question „a Łódź?” (what about Łódź?) in the form of subtitles, rhythmically synchronized with the sound - imitating „ouch”, which sound almost the same. I play a game with the recipient by asking and reminding of the place where I live whith an ambiguity. On the one hand, Łódź is a dynamically developing place, constantly changing its reputatuin as a „hotspot”. On the other hand, it still remains an underestimated, entropic, post - industrial city with population falling every year.
The work was presented in Galeria Kobro (Lodz, 2018) during Here and elsewhere exhibition; in Obrońców Stalingradu 17 (Szczecin, 2018) during a Łódź? exhibtion, and in Fosfor Art Gallery during Cracow Gallery Weekend in 2019
Work is the part of The PKO Bank Polski Collection
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Zdjęcia
3350g
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GRZEGORZ DEMCZUK