Softcover, 18.5 × 13.5 cm, 120 pages, Polish/English
The exhibition is a retrospective presentation of the artist’s oeuvre from the last few years. The strands which are touched upon include opening up art for others, rejecting artistic quality in favour of more egalitarian culture, the range of community power and the politicization of culture and citizen culture, as well as art as a tool for summary action untainted by any ambition to occupy the attention of future generations.
The exhibition is a project by the artist, who has made a selection of his own works. The presentation is composed of fifty films completed between 2006 and 2012, including two series: Selected Works and Democracies, as well as three films: My Neighbours, Blindly, and The Mass. The film narrative is supplemented by drawings and paintings, the work of the project’s participants, as well as an archive of press clippings relating to the filmed events in the Democracies cycle.
The exhibition is accompanied by a bilingual catalogue describing the method used by Żmijewski, with a text by Karol Sienkiewicz.
