Visual artist and photographer. He constructs archaic optical toys and primitive devices for photographing, drawing and showing illusion of motion. He uses a non-standard photosensitive materials: plants, luminophores, his own skin, exploring the fringes of the invention of photography. He is the co-inventor if solargraphy, and the author of foundations of the global photographic project based on this technique. Within the no.theatre.pl project Paweł Kula is preparing an exhibition focused on the City, which will be presented at the Bastard Festival in Trondheim in September 2014.
A city does not take the final form. Living a city life, one can observe spaces that have lost their original function and drift through the meanings assigned to them by ephemeral users. These fluctuations of meanings, often distant from the assumed ones, are a fascinating trace of a man living in urban hybrids. An organism of a city is a place of constant competition, but also of a harmonious coexistence of various forms of life. A city is a symbiosis of alternative models of the existence, and at the same time a space of genuine conflict. Foil huts of urban nomads – and houses protected by surveillance cameras. Improvised metal waste collection centres exploding with a sudden flame of burning wires – and family barbecues on Sunday. Swimming pools overgrown with reeds, forest animals stopping traffic at intersections, and symphonies played by chimneys of abandoned factories reverberating with endless echoes. Monitored school, informal playgrounds, and gated communities offer practices with various models of reality. Such practices construct our understanding of the world, yet sometimes they emanate an aura of discreet violence. All these stories manifest in one urban body at the same time and sometimes one can see them.
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