GALERIA NOCNY ART PATROL
ul. Mikołaja Kopernika 15/6, Warszawa
May 26 – June 24, 2023
Tuesday – Saturday
12 am – 18 pm
“Historie dzieją się na naszych oczach”
“Stories are happening before our eyes”
Bolesław Chromry – Dawid Czycz – Monika Drożyńska – Wiktor Gałka – Andrzej Kulig – Krzysztof Marchlak – Kaja Pilch – Adam Rzepecki – Magdalena Sawicka – Witold Stelmachniewicz – Julia Szymczykowska – Zuzanna Zawłocka
Stories are happening before our eyes
– What matters is who tells the story and how.
– It’s perverse to start the story by saying that once upon a time, no one confided in such a sudden way about everything. Everyday life and trivialities were reserved for the family and the diary. When the character played by Bardini in Kieslowski’s film recounted a dramatic event from his life, it was told in a seemingly straightforward manner, but at the same time you could feel the overwhelming power of the confession. And you had time to listen to this confession.
– The storyteller must not be interrupted. In ancient times, one could have been imprudently stabbed through with a spear. But should one only talk about important things? What about the crumbs of everyday life? They are what really make us and say so much about us.
– Like instagram cooking reels?- No, like small gestures that are important, like stroking your head to check your hairstyle and make sure everything is OK.
– And how does that relate to finding out at the same time what’s going on in the faraway world? A hundred years ago, people didn’t hear about every conflict, hurricane and traffic collision somewhere on a US road.
– But now we know about it, and in another hundred years we may be flying suborbital to work in an Asian factory. A synthetic meat factory.
– I’m not interested in life a hundred years from now, let’s talk about what’s happening now. So much of history is happening before our eyes.
– So everyone will tell a different story, and even if it were one story, everyone would still tell it differently.- Perfect, so let everyone tell their own story.
– And who will tell the story of war?
Agnieszka Gołębiewska and Mariusz Horanin