MICHAŁ LICHTAŃSKI, HOTEL

Curators: Grzegorz Piątek & Jarosław Trybuś 

 

 

 

 

 

 

"This silence needs to be excused somehow. You could say that time has stopped here, but there never really was any time here. There’s a void polishing the edge and dissolving colours. There’s also a tangle of human footprints pressed into faded carpets. The footsteps of prostitutes and men in suits, budget tourists (or the type who came here by accident), dodgy geezers in leather jackets, taxi drivers, black-market money changers—the only evidence of meaning. Everyone was here for just a moment. That’s why the time we know doesn’t exist in hotels. Where is this place? Perhaps it’s somewhere halfway between what there was and what there is? It doesn’t matter. A void and silence—also as an answer to the question “what next?” Places without time are condemned to extinction."

Filip Springer

 

 

Michał Lichtański (born 1983, Silesia)

A student of the Institute of Creative Photography in Opava, Czech Republic, he has developed his career as a documentary and portrait photographer, and reporter of the East News agency. In his free time he compulsively listens to music and collects vinyl records. He is also a travel enthusiast with a love affair with the Balkans going back several years. He has published articles in The Guardian, Zwierciadło, Instynkt, Przegląd, Gazeta Wyborcza and Kikimora.

His blog can be found at www.mesztre.blogspot.com.

Lives and works in Krakow. 

 

 

 

MICHAŁ LICHTAŃSKI

HOTEL

Curators: Grzegorz Piątek & Jarosław Trybuś

 

Grand opening: 17.05.2012; 9 p.m.

Galeria RADAR, ul. Brzozowa 17