DREAM DIVERS
Lookout Gallery, Warsaw
14.4.2012 - 31.5.2012
“Dream divers” is the first exhibition at Lookout Gallery – a newly open photo gallery in Warsaw – that will present the projects of three young artists who have already gained international recognition - Sarah Wilmer from USA (photography), Alexander Binder from Germany (photo) and Julka Paluszkiewicz from Poland (video). In case of Wilmer it will be the first, and for Binder – the second exhibition in Poland.
What those three artists have in common is a similar approach to the creative process. Instead of reconstructing reality, they explore the ephemeral and spiritual, balancing between consciousness and a dream. Their visions are sometimes soothing and fairy, other times dark and full of anxiety. In their works nature plays an extremely important role, particularly – the semantically rich theme of the forest. The smallest detail of the visible reality can undergo a dazzling metamorphosis here, “revealing the nature more intensely than the nature does itself ” (Bernd Stiegler “Images of the Photography”). The artists, as a source of inspiration - besides nature – point out surrealism, Dutch painting, movies by Dario Argento, Herzog, Polanski, Lynch and Jodorowski, and finally the occultism». (Binder).
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