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Rekonstrukcje pamięci / Reconstruction of Memory, Drezno, 2016

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“Sleeping pictures” is part of my recent investigations on dust, it goes through existentialism, from questions about the status of the piece of art, the process of art maintenance or the position of the artist, until the new materialism philosophy and order in the postcolonial world.

The title is referring to the heard sentence, “Pictures that no one is watching are sleeping”. Thus I covered the pictures with varnish which attracts the dust, and with black paint which makes the dust more visible. I was collecting these pictures hidden under my bed – place which I considered the safest. Every month I was putting under the bed one canvas (until I filled the space with pictures under my bed) thinking: despite of the fact that being covered by dust means to be forgotten, Isn’t true that every artist would like to become covered by dust sooner or later?

The word “dust” lead us also to a wide group of designates – among them “pollen”, powder” (with its magic properties, like bringing deep sleep), or “ashes” from which we come from and turn into. The thick layer of dust causes also the temptation of touch it and leads us from visual forms of observation to embodied forms of cognition (showing at the same time that we are curious creatures). All this experiences with this matter led me to the question: Is there something more durable than my image?