polski
Exhibition opening
3.12.2025, 19:00
Foyer Forum, ul. Legionowa 5
A meeting around the exhibition and the album
3.12.2025, godz. 19:30
Klub FAMA, ul. Legionowa 5
The project beginnings consists of three distinct series: Return to Eden, In-visibilis, and Exodus 2064.
Exodus 2064
It’s the year 2064. I’m walking through the streets of Łódź — streets I know so well. The city is empty, faded, soulless. I’m searching for anyone to ask what has happened. There’s no one. I find people only in gated housing estates. They seem dazed, clearly under some kind of control. I tell them to come out, to be free outside. No one listens. I return a few years later. I meet the same people again, but this time outside the estates — living in poverty, left to themselves. Yet they are free. Happy.I recall Plato’s writings about leaving the cave, Orwell, The Matrix, The Truman Show. That’s enough for today. After nearly three hours, I take off the headset. I’m standing on the stage of the Nowy Theatre in Łódź. For the first time in my life, I have experienced hypnosis. I go home and reflect on the system that has control over us — on the essence of the individual within society and on the path towards building greater awareness of what we are all, to a greater or lesser extent, shaped by within our cultural sphere. In this series, I present figures who experience awakening in a metaphorical way. Each photograph has its own protagonist.
In-visibilis
I meet Paulina Ptashnik, a graduate in fashion design from the Academy of Fine Arts in Łódź, who shows me her diploma collection “Blind” — a concept partly created for people who are blind or visually impaired. It is devoid of colour, focused on form and texture, easy to put on, and features sewn-in Braille tags. Through fashion, Paulina has attempted to tell the story of a world that is so difficult to imagine. I begin spending hours blindfolded, trying to perform everyday tasks — attempting, even slightly, to understand what it means to perceive the world solely through hearing, touch, smell, and taste. In this series, using the garments created by Paulina, I attempt to portray the difference in sensory experience between sighted and blind individuals.
Return to Eden
This series was one of my first significant attempts to find my own artistic language of expression — my first work in the convention of staged photography. Together with my team, I built the set design, designed the costumes, and created the lighting. While working on this project, I realised that with full control over light, form, and texture, I could bring to life the images that existed in my mind — sketched and then materialised in front of the camera lens. Without the use of digital montage, the creative act in the studio became as important to me as the subsequent recording of the meticulously constructed scenes. In this way, I moved beyond the limitations of
Tomasz Wysocki – works in staged photography as well as film and theatre scenography. In his work he alternately draws on these three fields, taking inspiration from sculpture and painting. He meticulously constructs all his sets and then photographs them without digital montage.
He graduated with distinction from the National Film, Television and Theatre School in Łódź, specialising in Photography. His work has been shown in solo and group exhibitions in New York, Beijing, Milan, Copenhagen, Berlin, Vienna, Paris, Warsaw and Łódź. For many years he was represented by Leica 6×7 Gallery, Warsaw. He is a recipient of the Minister of Culture and National Heritage Award and was awarded scholarships by the Minister of Science (2014, 2016).
The exhibition was organized in cooperation with Leica Store Gallery Warsaw.
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