A visual artist active in the domain of multimedia, painting, printmaking, installation, design, performance art and theatre. His projects have been presented in galleries, museums, public spaces and theatres in Poland, Denmark, Sweden, England, Portugal, Switzerland, Germany, Russia, Italy and Hungary. He has collaborated with musicians (Marcin Dymiter, Robert Curgenven, Pogodno), visual artists (Magdalena Franczak, Karin Danielsson, Leo Palmestal). He received the Visegrad Foundation scholarship (VARP) and sholarship of the Marshal of West Pomeranian Voidoveship. He won the awards for best experimental film at the festival Euroshorts 2007. His works often deal with the issues of memory and identity. By means of multimedia actions he builds complex projects, using both visual arts and history, or literature. He is also an author of artistic publications. The Recovered is an action, which takes the form of audio visual installation. The narrative is based on biographies of German citizens, encountered by the new Polish rulers in 1946 in the land called “Recovered Territories”. Simple stories of people of all ages – a life contained in a few lines that one needs to fill with a detail: photographs of ancestors (found at the flea market), personal items (which in fact belongs to someone else and carry their own history), an attempt to get to the very people, or to the places where they were. A stopped moment of reality. The ritual of return – walking in someone’s footsteps and being aware of what is done here and now. Within the project no.theatre.pl, the action will be extended and expanded to include visual and sonic materials, and documentation that will be collected on the spot and that they will be directly connected with the history of Szczecin.
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