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 .