Passage II
New Age Gallery
Museum of the Lubusz Land
Zielona Góra
2020
Exhibition with Adam Romaniuk
When we avert our gaze from the mentioned graphic works (as well as installations), our attention will once again turn towards a three-dimensional object – suspended in the middle of the room, a rusted skeleton of a worn-out mattress, another – after kitchen utensils – trace of a person who has departed. The remnants of a garden bed in this case seem to dominate over a heap of shattered glass scattered under the mattress frame. The broken fragments of the "glass rain," constantly exposed to trampling by careless visitors, create an impression of the defeat of spiritual forces in the face of death and transience. In reality, both mentioned elements are just a
part of the installation, the culmination of which is a film displayed on the wall opposite the bed. Only when we watch this film, the meaning of the work – titled Passage – becomes
fully clear. The camera's eye directs us towards the gate, then the greenery of the garden, where originally the mattress was located – the resting place of the departed
individual. The specific object and its associated place, through audiovisual technology, are once again transferred to the timeless realm of metaphysics and immortal sacrum.
Jacek Gernat, Gesamtkunstwerk in dialogue, UNIVERSITY OF ZIELONA GÓRA No. 2 | 268 | February 2020, p. 22
See also: kultura/audycje | artinfo.pl/wydarzenia
Passage II
New Age Gallery
Museum of the Lubusz Land
Zielona Góra
2020
Exhibition with Adam Romaniuk
When we avert our gaze from the mentioned graphic works (as well as installations), our attention will once again turn towards a three-dimensional object – suspended in the middle of the room, a rusted skeleton of a worn-out mattress, another – after kitchen utensils – trace of a person who has departed. The remnants of a garden bed in this case seem to dominate over a heap of shattered glass scattered under the mattress frame. The broken fragments of the "glass rain," constantly exposed to trampling by careless visitors, create an impression of the defeat of spiritual forces in the face of death and transience. In reality, both mentioned elements are just a
part of the installation, the culmination of which is a film displayed on the wall opposite the bed. Only when we watch this film, the meaning of the work – titled Passage – becomes
fully clear. The camera's eye directs us towards the gate, then the greenery of the garden, where originally the mattress was located – the resting place of the departed
individual. The specific object and its associated place, through audiovisual technology, are once again transferred to the timeless realm of metaphysics and immortal sacrum.
Jacek Gernat, Gesamtkunstwerk in dialogue, UNIVERSITY OF ZIELONA GÓRA No. 2 | 268 | February 2020, p. 22
See also: kultura/audycje | artinfo.pl/wydarzenia