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There are only a few days left until the start the of the 9th Photomonth in Krakow. In contrast to previous years, this year the ShowOFF Section starts on May 13, together with the full Festival, and not as a warm-up. Once again, we’d like to point out that this year’s winners – Artur JastrzÄbski, Karol Kaczorowski, Ula Klimek, Tomasz Liboska and MichaĹ JÄdrzejowski, BartĹomiej Lurka, Wojciech Marzec, Bartosz MateĹko, Maciej NiesĹony, Maciej Nowaczyk, Mateusz Sadowski, Yulka WiĹam, and Piotr Zbierski, have been working with Poland’s best known photographers and photographic theorists: Magda Wunsche and Agnieszka Samsel, Wojtek Wieteska, MikoĹaj DĹugosz, Krzysztof Miller, RafaĹ Milach and Kuba Ĺwircz. They were both members of the jury and the curators of the exhibition. The results of their joint work may be admired from next Friday, when the first vernissages for the ShowOFF Section exhibitions will take place.
On Friday, 13 May at 17.00 we’d like to welcome you to New Roman to the vernissage of the youngest winner of the ShowOFF Section, 17-year-old Yulki Wilam, I Forgot Where It Was. The artist says of her work: an unfinished story about me. Slogans, impressions, associations. Scraps about growing up, my nostalgia, peace and longing for what I don’t know. Something about the strange things that could be seen through the bus windows which there was no time to look at.
At 19:30, this time in SkĹad Solny, the next ShowOFF participant’s exhibition opens – Karol Kaczorowski. Keikoku is the artist’s personal recollection of his few-week stay in Japan, avoiding stereotypical and superficial images. The curators of both exhibitions are Magda Wunsch and Agnieszka Samsel.
Friday night ends with the two ShowOFF Section vernissages whose curator is Mikolaj Dlugosz: at 21.00 in Club Fabryka, we invite you to Ula Klimek’s Tent 5, -Car 5, -Adult 5, -, and half an hour later at the Atropos Gallery, the opening of Wojciech Marc’s exhibition Sad Winter Is OK. Ula Klimek’s work documents the inhabitants of the “Lasek” campsite, where the artist spent her holidays, and their daily life during their summer relaxation on the lakeside. Wojciech Marzec also focuses on daily life, skilfully bringing the beauty out of seemingly ugly, unattractive images.
Saturday's marathon of ShowOFF Section vernissages begin precisely at noon at the BB Gallery, where Maciej Nowaczyk presents his series entitled Corporation. The curator is Kuba Ĺwircz. Nowaczyk restores importance and significance to those items bearing the trivial, invisible attributes of office work, transforming them into meaningful compositions.
The next exhibition also comes on Saturday at 17.30. Artur JastrzÄbski’s The Great Water in Paprocany was created under the watchful gaze of curator Krzysztof Miller. The derealised monochrome compositions of the titular lake can be seen at the ATTIS-Ryszard Lachman Art Gallery on ul. StarowiĹlna 14. From there we move to the ArteFactory Gallery, where at 18:00 the vernissage of Mateusz Sadowski’s Entwine, curated by Kuba Ĺwircz, will take place. According to the artist, the titular Entangle refers to the network of connections my brain makes in constructing the composition, and the viewer's brain in recreating the sense of the work. The photographs are the eye of this network.
Saturday evening ends with Tomasz Liboski and MichaĹ JÄdrzejowski’s exhibition at the Museum of Municipal Engineering in Krakow. Don’t mess with Texas, is an exhibition which arose in co-operation with curator RafaĹ Milach, and is an extraordinary document of the photographers’ expedition to Texas, looking for traces of the Silesian emigration to the US 155 years ago in the present day United States.
On Sunday, the first vernissage takes place at 14.00. Krzysztof Miller, curator of Bartosz MateĹka’s cycle Graffiti, says: Raw in form, not overstylised, and full of energy and dynamics, the black-and-white photographs tell us about the world of the underground, which most can’t enter, rolling past us, so to speak. The author explores the mystery of the graffiti-creation process. At 14.30 the next exhibition opens: BartĹomiej Lurki’s 25/25 (Curator: RafaĹ Milach). Lurki’s works are attempts to describe the artist's father and the relationship between them via objects which surrounded him. Both shows are exhibiting at the Artefakt Cafe.
The ShowOFF Section’s last vernissages are taking place at Klub Pauza at 19:00. Maciej NiesĹony’s Fighters is a cycle of portraits of Polish Olympic Boxing champions taken many years after their greatest triumphs. The works of Piotr Zbierski, on the other hand, comprising the cycle of Voice On, were created between 2007-2010 during numerous journeys to India, Ukraine, Germany, and Portugal. Wojtek Wieteska curated both exhibitions.
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