Jerzy Lewczyski - Photographs
Polnisches Institut Berlin
Jerzy Lewczyski: Negativ, gefunden in Sanok
1972 © Jerzy Lewczyski
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Photography is a proletarian art art on paper. But paper can be shredded and thrown away. I think every form of photography is important. A film that has been cut out and put in an envelope. Anonymous, closed, concealed photography. Buried under the earth. I like to see what I do as archaeology. I take a picture, and the beams of light and its remains will be immortalised in the silver particles. If we could learn how to reproduce this light residue and this solar energy, we could rewind life to that moment. Perhaps we might succeed in regenerating life. Perhaps that would be the end of the world in a different way. I have started to try this out. I enlarge a negative as far as it can possibly go. I tried to get inside it. And in the quest for this light, this energy that once prevailed there, I reached a limit. The doubtful thing I have a photo, but do I have this light as well?
(Fragment of an interview, Jerzy Lewczyski talking to Magdalena Rybak)
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Artist(s)
Jerzy Lewczyski
Duration of the exhibition
31.10.2008 - 15.01.2009
Vernissage
30.10.2008, 19 h
Opening times
Di-Fr 10-18 h
Location
Polnisches Institut Berlin
Burgstr. 27
10178 Berlin
T 0049 30 24758111
Public transport connections
S Hackescher Markt
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