13.05-02.07.2021
galeria Miejsce przy Miejscu 14
plac Strzelecki 14 | Wrocław PL
open from Monday to Friday
curator: Łukasz Rusznica
,,I remember everything, but not as my own memory. More like something on the side, seen in a movie, read. As if I had a transparent helmet on my head, a helmet that protects me and separates me from everything. His glass is clear, all contours become clear and even more real.
Kind of like waiting rooms, and kind of like hallways. Really long. I walk through them all alone. The hospital seems abandoned, as if after some kind of bomb explosion, but it is not destroyed. On the contrary, it’s as beautiful as a sterile space station. Long rows of chairs fill the hallways. By pandemics, these chairs are strangely arranged: every other chair is turned so that you can’t sit on it. Some have black crosses covered with tape.
These corridors are very long. I walked three. And the colors. One red, one blue, one yellow-straw. I walk through lava, I walk through river, I walk through resin. There’s a sluice at the end. I’m waiting at the raspberry door. Someone comes out – I can only see the suit – and hands me a red garbage bag. He doesn’t say anything. And that’s it and that’s it and it’s over.
I’m sitting in one of the chairs, I’m alone with a red bag, personal belongings in it. Just a quick visit to the morgue. Elvis Presley is playing on the radio and cigarette smoke is tinting everything blue. I’m getting the final signatures.
Then I sit stupefied on a bench outside the hospital with this red bag.
“That’s it, that’s all, thank you, sir” is how I feel.
I can’t see him. I can’t do anything.
And lamps, strange lamps everywhere, in this hospital. ”
fot. Tomek Tyndyk
“Personal Belongings” is the first exhibition in the “Year of Lead” series.