The project presented during the opening of Adolf Ryszka’s exhibition is a short theatrical and visual art form aimed at building a ‘contemporary’ context for the artist’s work. The multitude of material objects on display, countable and experiential through the senses, is a condensed record of the sculptor’s states of consciousness. Each work created in the context of the presented 72 sculptures and 40 watercolours must contain the right amount of madness and utopian naivety to arise. The performative logic allows for a temporary intervention into the established world, while not destroying its structure. The choreographic arrangement will be an attempt to create an autonomous perspective of feeling for the viewer, which will be embedded in a system of gestures, situations and symbols. The concept will be realised by the Italian-Polish collective Clarisse Falco and Krystian Jarnuszkiewicz.

Clarisse Falco (Genoa, 1995). She graduated from Visual Arts and Curatorial Studies in Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti (NABA). She works, as a visual artist and performer, on issues related to the body reflecting on its condition in a constant dialogue with mechanical elements. Her works start from the idea of the body conceived as a machine, beyond the distinction between subject and object, which is deprived of its appearance to become an engine and gear, part of a machine. In the performative activity, the machine-body binarism is expressed through an automatic gesture of the performers, as if trapped in a time loop that is always the same.

Krystian Jarnuszkiewicz is a Polish multimedia artist working mainly in the field of painting and sculpture. He graduated from the Costume for Performance — University of the Arts London in 2019. Author of spatial projects and realisations, theatre costumes and performative actions. His works depict subjective and emotional perspectives on people, places, and the environment. His focuses primarily on the expression of personal, intimate feelings that are transferred into a broader psychological context.