Man’s last day — exhibition of Szymon Szewczyk’s works in Small Space
We kindly invite you to the opening of the exhibition 19th December, 2017 at 6 pm.
The exhibition will last till 28th January 2018.
In the seventies of the last century group of independent researchers from the USA entered to the computer data about the present time. They asked about the future. It was expected that the world in current shape will end in the year 2000. As it turns out the duration has been extended.
Szymon Szewczyk was inspired by vision of extra time, he images the last day of man: stuffy, humid, with heat swirling air. In this yourney to tfuture, he uses old dusty botanical atlases full of black and white photos similar one another. He build his own collection. Forms of this organisms cross frames od diciplined resarch done by botanist. They tend to lean on the side of random collection practised by a charismatic futurologist. At the same time they are far away from apocalipctic vision of desertet landscape or gigant rubble heap full of sparking cables and elektrojunque.
Desinging new works Szewczyk acts as ingeneer and copies solutions from plant world. He is contructing rickety monuments in the world where the most resistan plants, anexing remains of dead civilisation, surived. Last living man and at the same time last visitor in this desertet area admires the beauty of destruction. He try to focus in area full of muddy fumes he sinks in dumping site full of bones.
He classifies remains between evolution and construction, between leftover and lush vegetation which evolves in an unpredictable direction.
His efforts are doomed to failure, since boundaries between organisms and architecture have been blurred a long time ago. Ruins are tightly overgrown, it is dificult to tell that is cosntruction or natural element, like hardend fibres and stems. We can observe that because of this very special circumstances, old monuments turned ito soft organism, where boundaries between design and live tissue lost any meaning.
Curator: Marta Lisok
