26.09.2024 - 10.11.2024, 00:00
12.10.2024, 11:00 - 19:00
New exhibition at the Archaeology of Photography Foundation! 🟥⬛️
Kill the white. Photography beyond realism 🌑🌑
Archaeology of Photography Foundation, Chłodna 20, Warsaw
Exhibition duration: 26.09–10.11.2024
Opening: September 26, 6:00 PM
Free admission. Opening hours: Mondays and Tuesdays from 11:00 AM to 5:00 PM and Wednesdays, Thursdays, Saturdays, and Sundays from 11:00 AM to 7:00 PM
Can photography reject figuration and free itself from the rigor of documentary recording? The exhibition presents a turn towards abstraction and emptiness in the experimental works of photographers Andrzej Georgiew, Mariusz Hermanowicz, and Antoni Zdebiak, as well as contemporary works by Dominika Sadowska. 🌑
Andrzej Georgiew (1963–2016), Mariusz Hermanowicz (1950–2008), and Antoni Zdebiak (1951–1991) are figures whose archives are under the care of the Archaeology of Photography Foundation. Each of them sought new means of expression and challenged the conventional approach to photography. The works presented in the exhibition engage in a fascinating play with emptiness, which the aforementioned creators conducted both on a formal and symbolic level. 🌑
The presented works approach abstraction through various methods: from surreal shifts in meaning to interventions in the very material of the image. 🌑
Works from the 60s, 70s, and 80s – some of which are being shown to the public for the first time – have been juxtaposed with installations by Dominika Sadowska (born 1977), in which the artist explores the boundaries of abstraction and expands the concept of the photographic medium. 🌑
The exhibition will also allow visitors to see what darkroom equipment looked like and how analog photography is created, thus better understanding the processes that led to the creation of the presented objects. 🟥
The exhibition is presented as part of Warsaw Gallery Weekend 2024 – the largest contemporary art festival in the region! 🟥
Media patronage: Photography Quarterly, magazine pismo, Niezła Sztuka, Meetings with Monuments
Additional events:
Curatorial tour with PJM, workshops, interactive photo quest, and a performance by Maciej Tomaszewski, questioning the role of destruction as a creative act in times of overproduction. 🟥
COLOPHON 🟥
Curator: Dr. Weronika Kobylińska / FAF
Academic support: Mikołaj Chmieliński / FAF
Exhibition design: Michalina Kacperak / FAF
Communication: Alicja Lesiów / FAF
Coordination: Kamila Kobus / FAF
Production: QPrint
Promotion and communication: Aleksandra Migacz
Visual identity: Wioletta Kulas
Assembly: Mateusz Wierzbicki / Willow Service
Translation into Polish Sign Language: Magda Schromová
The project is co-financed by: [m.st.](https://m.st/) Warsaw, Ministry of Culture and National Heritage
Partner: Totalizator Sportowy Foundation
Technology partner: Fuji
Media contact 🟥
Aleksandra Migacz
668 776 272
publicrelations@faf.org.pl