29.08 - 15.09.2024 / Gallery of the Institute of Photography Fort, Fort Mokotow, 6 Wladyslaw Szpilmana Street (formerly Raclawicka 99) building 4, Warsaw / Opening: 29 August 2024 | Thursday | 7 pm / Opening hours: Wednesday-Friday 14.00-18.00; Saturday-Sunday 12.00-18.00 / Admission to the exhibition: free.
From August 29, 2024, the Fort Institute of Photography in Warsaw will host an exhibition titled "Urban Legends," which is a photographic project created on phantasmagorias by second- and fourth-year students of the Department of Photography at the Film School in Lodz (affiliated with the CECH Collective). The stories depicted go straight back to examples of the 20th century avant-garde, only to take a turn towards afterimages from horror films. The base for creating stories is the city of Lodz, inspiration is gossip, memes and fake news, and everything is connected by the world of perpetual renovation and construction works.
CURATORIAL TEXT:
A city of conflicting emotions, hidden rivers, a city of machines and a thousand chimneys. A city of weaving stories floating between truth and myth... Heard or written down... Irrelevant. Before you are the stories absorbing this world. Our fantasies, dreams and nightmares, intertwined with observations of everyday life. We collectively experience this city, move through its nooks and crannies, breathe in its remarkable beauty.
We are experimenting. In our project, roles are lost. There are no specific names signed under light, set, frame. There is therefore a lack of authorship. There is only "We" - a conglomeration of different sensibilities, often extreme personalities and our common process. We resonate, we bounce off each other. We experience a river of creative energy.
We found ourselves here - at a similar time, with similar goals and desires.
However, did this place find us?
Project carried out under artistic supervision: Bownik, Szymon Kobusinski
Artistic Persons: Łukasz Biernat, Paulina Byczek, Ewa Januszewska, Monika Jóźwicka, Mikołaj Marciniak, Benedykt Rogala, Wojtek Serowik, Eryk Siemianowicz, Karolina Smołka, Krzysiek Szpryngiel, Jeremiasz Wesołek, Ania Zegar.
Graphic design: Alicja Godyń
Production Assistance: Zuzanna Karaś
The project is the result of a collaboration between the studios of Szymon Kobusinski and Bownik, lecturers at PWSFTviT.
Side event:
- August 31 | Saturday | 1:00 pm - Guided tour with artistic persons and artistic supervisors.
- September 15 | Sunday | 1:00 pm - Guided tour with the participation of artistic persons.
IFF Foundation Patrons: Fort Mokotow, White Stone Development
Exhibition partners: Fujifilm Poland, Zing, Film School in Lodz, Studio Stolarskie Maciej Kochanowski, Panelco, Druk Poznań.