Magdalena Łazarczyk A wing moved by fingers
11.09 – 06.11.2020 Magdalena Łazarczyk A wing moved by fingers
ZPR curator: Magda Kardasz
collaboration: Monika Kopczewska
Places on the outskirts of the city, abandoned and forgotten, are governed by their own laws. The objects accumulated there pile up in layers, their destiny changes or disappears completely as a result of transformations; time flows differently. Decomposition and recomposition, reshaping of fragments, mysterious sounds closed in a cycle that seems to last forever. Places that are diverse and dynamic on the one hand, and on the other, filled with peace and emptiness. Their incredible atmosphere attracts attention, evokes anxiety, forces us to ask questions that are difficult to answer, leaving a feeling of insatiability and pushing for further exploration.
When you want to capture their image, it is impossible to show all the sides, layers and combinations at once. The artist, while making videos, captures individual fragments of reality, which she then combines, trying to present the space around her as broadly as possible. In effect, she creates her own configurations, which we also see in her collages and assemblages. Photos from antique shop albums are interspersed in unusual combinations with found, abandoned objects. Every person (including the artist and the viewer) is also subordinate to these processes, being at the same time a creator and an object of transformation, subordinate to entropy. The hands that appear symbolise an attempt to interfere and the power of agency — the fingers move the inert wing, awakening it to a new life.
photo Łukasz Sosiński
(1985) is involved in film, photography, collages and installations. She deals with the subject of human relations with the surrounding world, she is interested in the distance between a sign, an object and its notion, function and place in the system. She’s inspired by the world of things. A graduate of photography at the University of Arts in Poznań (2013) and media art at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, she graduated from Mirosław Bałka’s Studio of Spatial Activities (2015). Her diploma work was awarded at the Coming Out 2015 exhibition and received the main prize at the (NIE)OBECNOŚĆ exhibition organised by the Labyrinth Gallery in Lublin (2017). Together with Zuza Golińska, she forms the performative duo TWINS. Together with Łukasz Sosiński, she runs ROD — Realny Obszar Działań [Real Activity Area] — an artist-run-space in the Family Allotment Gardens in Warsaw. She lives and works in Warsaw.
Selected exhibitions:
Other Ways of Watching Together, Showroom MAMA, Rotterdam, 2020; Animation Beyond Cinema, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2019; Project X, Zachęta — National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, 2019; Force Field, Officine 800, Giudecca, Venice, 2019; What You Learned from Facebook, CCA, Tbilisi, 2018; No-Man’s Land, Labirynt Gallery, Lublin, 2018; Invisible Wall, Arsenał Gallery in Białystok, 2017; Hosted Simply, Vienna, 2016; The Sense of the Body, FISAD 2015, Turin, 2015; Goosebumps, Polish Word House, Warsaw, 2015; Myths. Students/Artists/Teachers, Fondazione Pastificio Cerere, Rome, 2014; Lesson, Zachęta Project Room, Warsaw, 2014.
Magdalena Łazarczyk
A wing moved by fingers
11.09 – 06.11.2020
Zachęta Project Room
ul. Gałczyńskiego 3, 00-362 Warsaw
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Godziny otwarcia:
tuesday–Sunday 12–8 p.m.
free entry