vernissage 12.09.2023 / hour 19.00 / Exposition 12.09.2023 - 29.09.2023 / Cultural Center eSTeDe "Scena To Dziwna" /.
42 Roosevelta Street, Gniezno
The Cultural Center "Scene is Strange" invites you to a unique exhibition. On September 12, photographer Marek Lapis will present the project "OdNowa", an author's look at the experience of the pandemic period.
Mark Lapis' latest exhibition is a reflection on the direct impact of SARS-CoV-2 on people. "Renewal" depicts intimate moments of people from different walks of life to show the changes brought about by the pandemic and the gestures of aid and solidarity that restore faith in humanity.
- After a few months of life slowing down, we longed for the pre-pandemic state, which seemed to us a "lost good." We longed for the most important things: direct contact with loved ones (and others), a handshake or looking into the eyes of another person with love - all the things you can't buy, but which indicate the quality of life. Lockdown made us realize that social ties are essential, the author says.
The intermedia project uses a cross-section of photographic techniques (analog and digital), expressing through words and images what has changed in our perception of the world through lockdown.
The opening of the exhibition will take place on September 12 at 7 pm at the CK eSTeDe gallery. The photographs will be on display until September 29. The project was realized within the framework of a grant from the Minister of Culture and National Heritage.
"OdNowa" is one of Mark Lapis' many projects. The author has been involved in social, documentary and reportage photography for many years. He is a graduate of Photography at the Multimedia Communication Department of the Magdalena Abakanowicz University of Arts in Poznan and a member of the Union of Polish Artists Photographers. His photographic projects to date have resulted in numerous awards, including International Photography Awards Los Angeles, PX3 Paris, Tokyo International Foto Awards, Grand Press Photo, Black & White Spider Awards Los Angeles, Leica Street Photo, BZ WBK PRESS FOTO, Moscow International Foto Awards, Polish Sports Photography Contest, and National Geographic Poland. He has published his work in most newspapers and magazines in Poland such as. Polityka, National Geographic Polska, Newsweek Polska, Przekrój, Tygodnik Powszechny, Viva, Forbes, Playboy, Gazeta Wyborcza, Rzeczpospolita.
Exhibition realized within the framework of the 2022 creative grant from the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage.
The SAR-CoV-2 pandemic is responsible for more than 3 million deaths worldwide. Its effects are long-term, it's hard to know exactly what period we will face. No one fully knows or can predict it.
I myself was hit hard when I encountered coronavirus. Unfortunately, my condition so critical that I had to be transported by covidova ambulance to an infectious disease hospital. Spent there 3 weeks very much etched in my consciousness, it is very difficult to forget what I experienced there. Difficult moments on the knife edge were several, I'm glad I found my way back. The whole body suffered a lot, including the bodily and spiritual spheres. It took a long time to get back to a fairly normal, previous life. It was a time for deep reflection on what is most precious in life.
It was hard to predict from the beginning what the post-pandemic landscape of the globe would be, whether we would recover quickly. The most important thing was the reflexes of positive behavior. Help, solidarity, a desire for relief for those most affected and heartbroken. Many did not know how to behave, how to deal with this sudden situation. After a few months of slowdown, we longed for the times before the pandemic, it seemed to us a "lost good". We missed the most important things: direct contact with loved ones or other people, a direct handshake or looking into the eyes of another person with love. For the things that can't be bought, the things that testify to the quality of life. Lockdown, made it clear how we are a society in need of social ties.
Intermedia exhibition using photographic techniques of noble analog and digital techniques - the project "Renewal" presents reflections related to the encounter of people from a wide spectrum of society with SAR-CoV-2. What has changed in their "Inner Landscape"?, in their lives , in their perception of the world, what ended?, and what began? Using the medium of image and words, I reach these intimate spaces of experience to release them. Marek Lapis.
| Patronage of the Union of Polish Artists Photographers. Media patronage: Kwartalnik Fotografia |
Marek Lapis (1968, Poland) - Master of Arts in the Department of Photography at the University of Arts in Poznan. Member of the Union of Polish Artists Photographers. He taught Photography at the Higher School of Humanities and Journalism, later at the Wielkopolska School of Photography. Lecturer of international photography workshops for people with intellectual disabilities in 2013 and 2015, as well as the originator and creator of the original program of workshops for deaf people, which implement in the Association of Deaf People TON in Poznan. Until 1996 a full-time photojournalist for the weekly WPROST, later working in his own Photo Agency ARTMEDIA. Since 2000, he has been working with FORUM, the Polish Agency of Photographers. Official photographer of the United Nations at COP 14 in 2008.
I photograph niche environments, alienated from society in general. In photography I am primarily interested in people and their emotions. By photographing others, I get to know myself more and more. The camera over time has become an extension of my eye and hand, I am one with it.
ARTIST RESUME
In April 2020, during the coronavirus pandemic, he initiated and organized the charity event PHOTOGRAPHERS FOR HEALTH SERVICE, in which he and leading Polish photographers raised the sum of 42,000 zlotys.
- Scholarship recipient of the Minister of Culture and National Heritage 2017, 2018 Warsaw - Scholarship Recipient of the Marshal of the Wielkopolska Region 2017 Poznań - Scholarship Recipient of the Grant ŻYWIEC ZDRÓJ SA within the competition INITIATIVES PO STRONIE NATURY 2018 Wrocław - First Degree Award of the Poznań Starosty for achievements in the field of artistic creativity 2018 Poznań - Medal "For Merits to Photography Poland (1918-2018) on the 100th anniversary of regaining Poland's independence" Fotoklub Rzeczpospolitej 2018 - "Medal commemorating the 990th anniversary of the Coronation of Bolesław Chrobry as King of Poland - for his merits for the development of Polish culture and art and for exemplary patriotic attitude" from the hands of the President of Gniezno 2019
Works in the collection:
- Museum of Contemporary Art MOCAK in Krakow, - Rencontres d'Arles Library at École Nationale Supérieure de la Photographie in France, - FUAM Photo Book Library in Istanbul, - Picture of Year Library at Columbia University, - Aperture Foundation PhotoBook Library New York, - Benaki Museum in Athens, - State Art Gallery Hyderabad in India, - Los Angeles Center of Photography, - Amber Gallery-Museum Nida, Lithuania, - Museum of the Kościań Land,- Museum of the Origins of the Polish State in Gniezno.
Winner of photo contests among others:
- International Photography Awards 2013 and 2019 New York,- Grand Press Photo Warsaw 2008, 2015, 2016, 2019 and 2020;- Leica Street Photo Warsaw 2012, 2015,- BZ WBK PRESS FOTO 2013,- Processor Project 2013,- Paris de La Photographie PX3 2015, 2016, 2019;- Black & White Spider Awards Los Angeles 2015, 2016 and 2019;- Tokyo International Foto Awards 2016, 2019;- Moscow International Foto Awards 2016, 2018, 2019,- International Photographer of the Year 2017 London,- Monochrome Awards 2017 and 2019,- ND Awards 2018 London,- MonoVision Awards London 2018 and 2019,- Fine Art Photography Awards London 2018 and 2019,- Budapest International Foto Awards 2019,- Les Rencontres de la photographie Arles 2019,- Open Call Photobook Jakarta International Photographic Festival 2019,- IV Istanbul Photobook Festival "PHOTOBOOKS OF THE WORLD EXHIBITION 2019,- Photobook Contest Los Angeles Center of Photography 2019,- Photobook Exhibitions Indian Photo Festival - Hyderabad 2019,- Photobook Athens Photo Festival 2019 - International Festival of Photography and Visual Culture Benaki Museum Athens, Greece,- Photobook Awards 2019 International Photography Photometria Festival Greece 2019,- Polish Sports Photography Contest 1st place 2014 and 2016;- National Geographic Poland Contest,- KREATIVE CULTURE 2016 and 2017,- Brindisi Bike and Manekind Italy 2017,- FOTOFESTIVAL ŁÓDŹ 2017,- INTERPHOTO Festival Białystok 2017 and 2019,- Paperlust Photobook Fest 2019 Kraków, - I International Biennale of Street Photography Moment - the International
Biennale of Street Photography 2019 Czestochowa - finalist,- "The Dissonance and Quarrels of Warsaw" Competition - 2nd place - Warsaw- Tango in Lens - 1st place - Tango Salon Festival Lodz.
Workshop participant:
- Magnum Photos, - Ryszard Horowitz Workshop: Art and Computers - Expanding Imagination, Raymond H. DeMoulin - Eastman Kodak Company, Robert Bowen - School of Visual Arts New York; - Canon Student Program Magnum Photos at the festival of photojournalism and documentary Visa Pour L'Image Perpignan 2017 in France;- Presented his works at several hundred individual and group exhibitions in Poland and around the world - among others.including photos at the EXPO 2000 Hanover world exhibition and THIS IS POLAND in more than a dozen metropolises on several continents;- Juror of more than a dozen photo contests.
- He publishes in most Polish magazines and weekly opinion magazines (Wprost,Polityka, Newsweek, Przekrój) and in foreign media including Time, Focus,The Sunday Telegraph, Reuters, Le Figaro.Marek Lapis, a Gniezno man born in 1968, lives in Koziegłowy near Poznan. Member of the Union of Polish Artists Photographers ( member of the Board of the Wielkopolska District) and member of the AFTERIMAGE Photographers Collective. Holder of a scholarship from the Minister of Culture and National Heritage, photography major education .