Dvir / Paris
Gallery Hours
Tuesday – Thursday: 11:00 – 19:00
Friday – Saturday: 12:00 – 19:00
Mirostaw Batka, Tanz, 2002, video installation; salt, metal cassette, 10 × 250 x 190 cm, video, 1'40". Photo Alicja Kielan
“The Night Will Drive a Heart” is a romantic manifesto of very different invited artists who work with various media and come from different parts of the world. They take part in a relational art project which is the reaction to the reality of the times in which we live.
In the beginning, the visitor sees a work by Mirosław Bałka, one of the Polish artists most beloved and respected abroad, juxtaposed with a piece by Ada Zielińska – a young photographer who took a famous photo that went viral online in 2018. This juxtaposition is by no means deceptive. In the photo, we can see a scene where a cosy and homey atmosphere, as in the scenes which Edward Hopper painted, is combined with a scene of a battle or a rebellion taking place behind the window. Everything out there is blood-red because of rockets being launched by those “celebrating” Polish Independence Day. This picture contrasts with the white colour present in the piece by Mirosław Bałka entitled “Tanz” (“Dance”). The contrast clearly shows us where we are. We are in Poland in 2021.
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