16.03.2024 at 16:00 / First floor at the Deskur House. Radom, ul.Rynek 15 / Exhibition will be presented until 12.04.2024 / Organizers: Gloria Lucas Foundation for Visual Arts, Formats Collective
The idea of the "Image and Word" project by Tomasz Sikora and Artur Wolski - brilliant in its simplicity! - turned out to be excellent. Here, 57 photographs by Tomek Sikora were placed in the hands of artists, mainly writers, with a proposal to choose one of the photos and write a text inspired by it. The invitation to the project was accepted by, among others, Sylwia Chutnik, Jacek Cygan, Magdalena Grzebałkowska, Cezary Harasymowicz, Filip Łobodziński, Michał Ogórek, Mariusz Szczygieł, Grzegorz Turnau, Magdalena Zawadzka. Fiction stories, poetic stanzas or prose impressions were created based on the photos. Characteristically, each of the writers did it in their own way, and at the same time they managed to render something unusual in a particular photograph by Tomek Sikora. As a result, as Artur Wolski writes, "the author of the photographs and the authors of the texts create a moving story - about life, the world and themselves."
During the vernissage - a meeting with Tomek Sikora and Marek Popielnicki (responsible for the album's graphic design) - recordings of texts interpreted by Krystyna Czubówna, Grzegorz Pawlak and Radoslaw Podpłonikowski will be played.
Information about the author of the exhibition:
TOMASZ SIKORA is considered the most creative Polish photographer, creator of theatrical and film posters, book illustrations, realizer of works for European and American advertising agencies. author of dozens of solo exhibitions around the world and 84 author publications. He has been repeatedly awarded for creativity in photography. Twice elected advertising photographer of the year in Australia where he lived for many years. Author of international advertising campaigns. In 2002, together with Andrzej Świetlik, he established the Homeless Gallery promoting independent photography in many countries. During the inaugural meeting of the "Formats of Photography" series, Tomasz Sikora will tell the guests about his creative path, talk about photography, and those interested will be able to purchase albums with the author's dedication on the spot. Tomasz Sikora about his photographs: Photography records reality. However, does it do it objectively? After all, it is we authors who decide to select a fragment of it. By enclosing it in a frame of a rectangle or square we give it a personal character, as we deprive it of its wider context. It is also often the case that in our already cropped image we can find small elements that can change the original narrative. By cutting them out of their context, we not only get a new story, but by the fact of enlarging a small part of the photo, we change its artistic quality. A sharp document transforms into a different, impressionistic image. The new quality draws us into a different reality, allows us to play with color and sharpness, elements that cannot be moved in a documentary.