DEAD SIGNAL

BWA Gallery in Olsztyn, December 2013  

A war reporter or rather a war correspondent is a person who risks a lot to take a picture or write an article; it is a person taking no side in conflict, yet, being in the middle of events. Artists can be perceived similarly, especially when they realise that there are existent problems in the world. Art is crucial and it has its mission to fulfil. However, it is not an element of politics, it is based on its own integral rules, and it has an important effect on available means of expression, somewhere between a shock and contemplation… A study of contemporary visuality and perception is worth particular attention since almost everything that we know about the world and the way we sense it is provided via processed images…