BWA Contemporary Art Gallery in Katowice

Various alter ego are functioning beside each other Walczak’s creation brings in mind Heidegger’s ‘Being and Time’ and ‘Being-in-the-World’. In the works presented at the exhibition, the artist asks about identity. There’s no unequivocal answer to this question. Everyone is responsible for his own identity, for his choices and for building the sense of life.
Problems of identity imply the fundamental questions of existence, including decision taking, time, and memory, which indicate at continuous process of self-creation, and continuous reinterpretation of our own ‘I’ under the influence of occurring circumstances. Ireneusz Walczak’s painting is a kind of psychoanalysis of contemporary man. The presence of the body image in the artist’s creation in times of digitalisation which seems to invalidate it, makes us remember that it’s inscribed in human identity.

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