Martial arts guide, information
multi-element installation, 2018
The theme of the exhibition is photography entangled in brutality, where the camera plays a role similar to the one of a weapon. As Susan Sontag writes: „To photograph people is to violate them, by seeing them as they never see themselves, by having knowledge of them that they can never have; it turns people into objects that can be symbolically possessed. Just as a camera is a sublimation of the gun, to photograph someone is a subliminal murder - a soft murder, appropriate to a sad, frightened time.”
In the video Photopunch the hit on the head plays the same role as a camera shutter. It is relevant to the intensified phenomenon of photographing in our contemporary reality, where the oppressiveness of
photography concerns not only the person to whom the lens is directed, but also the viewer - attacked with
more and more intensified images.
I compose a new narrative on the basis of photos collected from martial arts guides. A series of defense exercises gradually turns into a love story. Collected photos at 36 meters, which I wrapped around the gallery space at eye level.
The work was presented as individual exhibition in Poleski Art Center (Lodz), it was awarded by Second prize of the Academy of Fine Arts rector in Lodz in competition Hommage al’ liberte
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Salty Sweat
Measuring tape for reflections
Slapstick
Sky is the limit
Javelin throw
Food for thought
ᕙIB-027-Showᕗ
Cliffhanger
The end
Banana peel
Basis
Hair dryer
Screen trap
A Łódź?
Guide to martial arts
Handshake
Attention - meter
PPL2017
I’m spinning around
Zdjęcia
3350g
Sport and recreation
Condition
Form
Doesn’t concern me
Thirst
Do not come to close
GRZEGORZ DEMCZUK