Zachęta Project Room

curators: Silverado Gallery, founded in 2013 by Marta Węglińska, Maciej Nowacki and Marta Hryniuk

Real-Time Controller – exhibition prepared by Marta Węglińska, Maciej Nowacki and Martha Hryniuk – its first show had in the Silverado Gallery at the Poznań Academy of Fine Arts. In Zachęta Project Room curators will show a different version of the project, raising questions about the nature and opportunities to reproduce the principles of the original.

A key figure for the exhibition at Poznań’s Silverado Gallery was Dariusz Bajda, a long-time charismatic porter at the Poznań Academy of Fine Arts, in the loft of which the gallery is located. The exhibition Real-Time Controller is a narrative reference to one of the many stories Bajda tells about his complicated life. However poetically this may sound, a real-time controller is but a function of the CA80, an early computer prototype, the construction of which became something of Bajda’s obsession in the authoritarian 1980s. In the Poznań version of the exhibition, Bajda’s story formed a site-specific sound work within the gallery’s staircase, where his voice established an immaterial testimony of the place, immanently inscribed in its nature. The work’s reinterpretation at the ZPR manifests itself in the secondary presence and role of Bajda’s voice, which is emitted from a prompt box-like object, a place of alienation and temporariness. Weronika Bet’s painting, The Good One, finds here its equivalent in the form of a relief plasticine replica. The purpose of this repetition is to transform the natural dynamics of plastic material subjected to light and temperature – the factors of an alchemy, as it were, of transformation. One of Nierodzińska’s films, Quietly Treading, has been reconstructed according to a similar strategy as an effect of reversing the exhibition order – from the original top (dovecote) to the basement (cellar).

In this context, the Warsaw exhibition is complemented by Justyna Kisielewska’s installation, created specially for the show, where illusion is the key determinant of meaning. The medium of hologram turns Kisielewska’s gold nugget into a unattainable treasure that dissolves in our hand. In this case, the struggle is quite utopian, not necessarily oriented towards a material, tangible effect – but where the need is born for ceaselessly continuing forward. Bajda’s story ends with a short ‘it worked’. This confession is a return not so much to the object as to oneself, to one’s own unbridled, instinctive freedom.

about the urators: Silverado Gallery, founded in 2013 by Marta Węglińska, Maciej Nowacki and Marta Hryniuk (students of the Academy of Fine Arts in Poznań), located in the attic of a former school at 7 Garncarska Street in Poznań. The gallery presents the work of young artists in a space heavy with historical references. The exhibitions, informed by the specific nature of the space, are an effect of discussions between the curators and the invited artists and theoreticians.

exhibitions: “Hubert Wińczyk. Offended Felings R-1”; “Real-Time Controller” (Bajda, Bet, Kucharski, Nierodzińska); “Exhibition as an Altered State of Consciousness. Intro (The Camp)”. Also the project “Stirring Up the Images’ Nest” – cyclical interdisciplinary meetings about the image.

artists:
Dariusz Bajda – born 1963, for fifteen years now associated with the school at 7 Garncarska Street in Poznań, where he lived in the attic for thirteen years. Passionate about electronics, he has recently taken up experimental photography: he pictures the school courtyard which he considers as a complete micro-world containing an infinity of images.

Weronika Bet – born 1987, studied painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Gdańsk and Academy of Fine Arts in Poznań, graduated in the atelier of Prof. Wojciech Łazarczyk.

Justyna Kisielewska – born 1986, studied painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Poznań.
Winner of a honorary mention in the Geppert Competition (2011).

Zofia Nierodzińska – born 1985, studied painting, Interdisciplinary Doctoral Studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Poznań, and Art in Context postgraduate studies at the UdK Berlin.