Studio POLECZKI.ART, Poleczki Street 58, Warsaw - Ursynów
Opening on Saturday, December 7, 2024 at 6:00 pm, exhibition until January 15, 2025.
Author's Photo Laboratory and Poleczki.art invite you to the Warsaw installment of the "TIME" exhibition. It will be an opportunity to talk with the authors and to purchase photographs.
Exhibition participants / attendees: Teresa Anniuk-Gulak, Agnieszka Antosiewicz-Mas, Patrycja Basińska, Elżbieta Drewniak, Eva Hajduk, Piotr Komorowski, Natalia Kraczoń, Katarzyna Laskus-Stwora, Jolanta Lipowczan-Stolarczyk, Patrycja Maciaszek, Halina Marduła, Elwira Marszałkowska-Krześ, Ewa Martyniszyn, Elżbieta Oliwiak, Jagoda Patron, Mariusz Raźniewski, Sofia Vero, Anna Surmińska, Grzegorz Surmiński, Aneta Więcek-Zabłotna.
Curator of the exhibition: Piotr Komorowski
(...) What then is time?
If no one asks me, I know,
But if I want to explain it to the questioner,
then I don't know.
St. Augustine, Confessions
A graphic diagram of the passage of time shows an arrow running from left to right. Any point of it marks some specific moment, defining the others as past, or future on the timeline. In the everyday experience of time, however, it is somewhat different: we experience it only in the punctual sensation of the Now, Which flows smoothly into its subsequent manifestations.
The present is thus by its very nature extremely ephemeral. The past, which no longer exists, and the future, which does not yet exist, seem equally mysterious. The only access to any graspable reality seems to be memory, in which we retain shreds of impressions inherited from the constantly passing acts of the present.
In our everyday experience of the world, we are constructed to perceive cause and effect, in a temporal order divided into segments arranged in order according to the arrow of time. Relativistic physics has challenged this order, pointing out the relativity of the concepts of both time and space, whose parameters depend on the observer's reference point, matter, and the force of gravity.
Perhaps, as Isaac Newton put it, time, but also space, are independent aspects of objective reality, which is a configuration of an infinite number of variants of its subsystems, and we are contained in one of them, as a spatio-temporal subset with characteristics inherent to it. And similarly, together with the other subsets, we co-create a single whole, inscribing ourselves in the construction of the Universe by the power of our intentions, trials, errors and any other activity undertaken in the way of daily busyness.
Photography and its derivative media bring the pattern of passing. But above all, they are a carrier of memory, often more durable than a single human existence. Photography is also a way of expression, thanks to which it becomes possible to approximate individual, authorial interpretations of the concept itself time.
The authors of the exhibition are current members and supporters of the Author's Laboratory of Photography from Wroclaw, founded in 2015 by Piotr Komorowski. ALF is a platform for the exchange of artistic ideas between photographers as well as representatives of other media, oriented to deepen and enrich the skills of creative expression.
Halina Marduła
POLECKS.ART, Poleczki 58 Street, Warsaw - Ursynów
Parking: chased street or in front of the studio
Access: bus 148, 165, stop on demand Holubcowa 02 or Holubcowa 01