B/R/Z
collaboration with Sam Stevens, Wrocław, Poland 2019
This exhibition presented an ongoing investigation of personal objects and their stories. Social encounters and travels combine in a site-specific installation.
The collection consists of objects and their traces, from years past shown as an open archive of frozen moments. Stories are passed through hands, objects are totems - tools or souvenirs. Everything is operating by exchange and is being powered by stories collected on different continents. Lost & Found in a gallery is a space to remind of things that matter. Because it always has to be lost in order to be found.
Lost and Found began in Los Angeles/Santa Monica (September 2017), and continued to San Cristobal, Mexico (May 2018), Oleśnica and Wrocław (December 2018), Mexico City (February
2019) until present.
Tortilla Paper Notebooks
from a market in Puebla, Oaxaca and also some from the bazaar in San Cristobal, Chiapas. We packaged and mailed them to the United States. Necessary documents for border crossing, those important papers were taken by bus to NYC, turned into booklets and then carried to Poland by plane. By the transmistter bringing blank pages from one world to another.
Tomato Garden Frames
He moved to Oleśnica, among many reasons, to have a small garden. Bought in the sawmill on Krzywosutego street, picked carefully, checked by Krzysiek and Boczek.
Sold by an unknown female trapped in a tiny kiosk by the entrance to the store house. Watched by senior clientele, telling loud un-censored stories. Then transported to our basement on Sudoła street, formerly Dostoyewski street, later turned into frames. Each different, but similar, just like the books he was working on a year ago.
exhibition view at Entropia Gallery, 2019