The Anex, part of I&A Exhibition, shows artists' explorations and reflection of the late 1970s concerning the perception of reality through photographic images. The search for answers to the questions then posed required parascientific, deterministic procedures and sometimes ‘laboratory like conditions’ for the analysis of their results. This was the case, for example, of the workshop in Turoszów (1978), when Ireneusz Kulik (“Breaking through the Landscape”) and Ryszard Tabaka (“Beyond Form”) showed, through spacial installations, the relativity of the real image in relation to its photographic record. In works by Leszek Szurkowski from this period (“Penetrations”), a chosen image is delved into by means of a carefully specified enlargement in such a way that the final result of this ‘analysis’ is no longer a representation of outer appearance, or in fact anything distinguishable, but becomes instead ‘a contextless texture and the technological qualities of photography.’

From “Forward“ by Jacek M. Piechucki

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