„Wszystko składane” – wystawa fotografii Macieja Rawluka

The exhibition of Maciej Rawluk's photographs is another face of the theme of suburbia – this time in the capital city.

When I look at the city borders, I do not criticise, I do not look for shortcomings, but I also do not focus on looking for aesthetic frames. I try to be a careful observer of visual reality and, whenever possible, record it objectively

– explains the author of the photographs.

Warsaw's suburbs in their monotonous landscape have provided the artist with many other stories. He was present at the construction of the Southern Bridge, at the Perła Złotokłos versus Przyszłość Włochy football match, on the last farmlands bordering with Warsaw. He has seen estates of detached houses with only a dirt road leading to them and places where a wall of soundproof screens replaced the horizon.

He has been to places where horsewomen did not want to pose for photos and where discarded Christmas trees on the Mokotów meadows were not suitable as firewood, even for the homeless. He has moved around more or less built-up areas, many times discovering inconspicuous paths or traces of camps in the bushes, meadows, outskirts of settlements or wastelands, places of survival that were created beyond any plans. Each of the photos can be associated with a small story.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Maciej Rawluk is an observer of ordinary things, a photographer, who was born in the 20th century. He is also active in film and painting. He is the author of seven books devoted to long-term photographic projects: "Przystanki polskie", "Bałuty – palimpsest", "Setka", "Posta Romana", "Ojczyzna", "Jedynka", "Wszystko składane". He works at the Strzemiński Academy of Fine Arts Łódź, where he runs the Photographic Document Unit at the Institute of Photography and Multimedia.

Edit: Bartosz Kałużny (Communications and PR Centre, University of Lodz)

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