from June 24, 2022 at the Fort Institute of Photography, in Fort Mokotow, 99 Raclawicka Street, Warsaw.
Does the human species fit the world? Does the world fit the human body? Is the earth the right place for us?
The young women and men in Lukasz Wierzbowski's photographs resemble cats that are testing whether they can fit into a vase. With their bodies, they test the usefulness and function of randomly encountered things - a glass plate, a clothes closet, a roadside railing, a self-propelled crane, a burned-out car wreck.
However, these pictures are far from cool, analytical conceptualism. These images are almost baroque in their splendor, sensual and fragrant. The artist's lens greedily captures the brilliance of girls in bloom, flowers, the light of the setting summer sun.
Wierzbowski's visual world is sensual, hot and bright, but at the same time lined with trepidation. The trepidation, however, turns into seemingly innocent fun and banter. "Natural Histories" by Lukasz Wierzbowski is a multi-level game with no clearly defined rules. It is an iconographic labyrinth of motifs, quotations, figures and repetitions, the interpretation of which is left solely to the viewer.
Łukasz Wierzbowski - Born in 1983 in Lubliniec. Graduated from dental school and social psychology at SWPS in Wroclaw. He started to deal with photography amateurishly at the beginning of his studies. Since the beginning, he has been photographing his nieces Ania and Magda and their surroundings. He collaborates with fashion brands (mainly from South Korea), The Sunday Times, Die Zeit and Australian Frankie magazines. He has published four photo albums. The last one, "Intruder," was published in 2022 by the Swiss publishing house Analog. Wierzbowski has participated in dozens of group exhibitions. The most recent of these is "Romantic Days" at the Daelim Museum in South Korea.
