Land scape
Mariusz Sołtysik
CONTEMPORARY ART REVIEW
to finish the thought … and then you have an impression that you have become a part of it( Herbert Marshall Macluhan, „ Through the vanishing point). We do not know how the viewers reacted to the paintings of Fra Angelico. We know what their reaction to the paintings is now. If the artwork is‘ spacious’ in a sense of craft and meaning, it will be alive. A photographic image is different. We deal today with a recording, which is happening in millions of copies every second. Images are technical, they become sharper and sharper and I agree with Flusser, they start to cover the reality. This is a question to the viewer, what the viewer expects from the photography, which he creates. It is also a question about describing and expressing instead of mindless clicking. It is finally a question about our social condition.
Changing Room provides the viewers with an intense, immersive experience and the dualism of things that marks out your artistic research leads you to investigate the social sphere and its condition: how do you see the relationship between public sphere and the role of art in public space? In particular, how much do you consider the immersive nature of the viewing experience?
The‘ Changing room’ is an immersive experience. It was created on Videy island, which used to be a thriving with life place, a workplace of many fishermen. Nowadays, it is a nesting place for birds laying eggs amongst the works of such artists works as Richard Serra’ s‘ Afangar’. In my work, you can notice several threads. My personal experience contained in a memory from my childhood.