By digging them into the ground, I help to give them back to the earth.
This installation is very simple. I compose layers of soil out of layers which exist, that have come into being as a result of changes in floor level, both those that have occurred as a result of natural processes, and those provoked by human intervention, and one of those levels is books.
Native Ground is the title given to the work as a sign of unity with the place in which it emerges. It is my intention that people themselves will decide which books I should use, so that other people can evaluate if this is a good choice”.

The artist’s other installation interacts not just with the space of MPZ, but also with viewers: requiring them to take a decision as to the borders of their contact with the work. The work deals with the theme of city-river. The artist presents two films made in and around Warsaw.

José Eduardo Yaque Llorente took part in an Air Artists In Residence Laboratory in CSW Zamek Ujazdowski in Warsaw.

Hamlet Lavastida concentrates in his work on the social and ideological panorama of communism. The basis for his works are the classic texts of Marxism, speeches by Fidel Castro, social programmes and archival documents. His latest work, prepared for the Fragmentos exhibition, concerns the invigilation of writers and intellectuals carried out by the Cuban government in the 1970s.
The starting point for the emergence of this work was a never published document found in the Stasi archives. The text criticizes well-known Cuban authors of that period. This work can be read in the categories of conceptualism, but the author himself conceives of it in a very minimalist way, as a kind of archeology. He comments on it as follows: “My work also speaks about preserving memory, about the lack of freedom of speech and about propaganda strategies. For me, it is very important to reflect on the structure of Cuban society and on how social psychology works on a very elementary level”.

Hamlet Lavastida took part in an Air Artists In Residence Laboratory in CSW Zamek Ujazdowski in Warsaw.
During the exhibition opening a performance by the artist took place.

Jarosław Jeschke shows in MPZ paintings and films that he made during a trip to Cuba as part of a Young Poland scholarship from the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage. In June and July 2012, he succeeded in going round pretty much the whole island. He writes about this thus: “My trip to Cuba emerged from a desire to get to know, experience and understand communism; to check how artists there live. And Cuba? Cuba is a magical, in a certain sense mythical place…”