Central by East Central
Central European photography has not get a separate, monographic study yet. Although artists from Hungary, Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia and Ukraine are considered “in the West” as a separate, interesting phenomenon, we do not really know anything about the specific nature of their activity and the nature of their artistic work.
The exhibition “Centralna, Środkowo-Wschodnia / Central by East Central” is situated on the one hand in the program of Arsenał gallery whcich activities aimed at working with artists of the region but also pays attention to the achievements of lesser-known in Poland and well-known in the world atrists and creates the basis for further research on the specificity of regional photography.
The inspiration for the Bialystok’ exhibition is the photobook published by Ivars Gravlejsa who was born in Soviet Latvia, living in Prague and working in Bratislava, Slovakia. Unknown Latvian Photography presents silhouettes of Latvian photographers operating in the 20th century. Outstanding constructors, conceptualists, and commercial photographers gathered in Gravlejs’ book combine that they have never been existed. Dialogue Gravlejs with discontinuous history is not apparent by weakness, but only for the typical of the region of complexity and has a visual and literary dimension (referring to the Milorad Pavic’ “Chazar Dictionary” or Roberto Bolaño’s “The Fascist literature in both the Americas” ).
The exhibition at Arsenal gallery focused on Central and Eastern European photography also balances on the border of cognizance error, on the past and present, on the image and the text.
Adam Mazur
Related events:
13.10.2017, 19.00 – Artist talk
14.10.2017, 11.00 – artist and curator-led exhibition tour translated into the Polish sign language
Curator: Adam MazurCooperation from the gallery: Sylwia Narewska
Jan Brykczyński, Dénes Farkas, Ivars Gravlejs, Lukas Jasansky/Martin Polak, Sasha Kurmaz, Diana Lelonek, Lucia Nimcova, Markéta Othová, Peter Puklus, Mateusz Sadowski, Indrė Šerpytytė, Algirdas Šeškus, Andrzej Tobis, Rimaldas Vikšraitis
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Opening times:
Thuesday – Sunday
10:00-18:00
Last admission
to exhibition is at:
17.30