FFP EXHIBITION: SO WHAT | POLAND ft. SLOW DOWNLOAD

FFP EXHIBITION:

SO WHAT | POLAND | GROUP SHOW

FT. SLOW DOWNLOAD BY MAGDA BUCZEK

Doomed Gallery, 65 Ridley Rd, London E8 2NP

2-5 February 2017

Private view: 2nd February at 6pm

Gallery opened: Fr 4pm – 8pm, Sat 12pm – 8pm and Sun 12pm – 7pm

Doomed Gallery Dalston and Fresh From Poland are proud to present the third edition of SO WHAT that will focus on contemporary Polish still life photography. This is the second issue of our So What x Poland show featuring an immersive piece by Magda Buczek. Since the first collaborative show in Krakow, exhibited as part of the Fringe Festival, the project has evolved through the exploration of photography’s contemporary still life scene. The gallery and photography platform Doomed has provided a playground for this ongoing discourse to ourish – encouraging an exchange with different countries and cultures.

photo by Kuba Mozolewski

So What Poland includes the work of established up and coming Polish artists that are concerned with documenting the situations of our present domestic landscapes. The photographs focus on the depiction of wittily constructed inanimate objects – ranging from traditional approaches to otherworldly surreal structures; these works allow us to view contemporary familiar and mundane items from a new perspective through borrowing technical characteristics from collage, painting, sculpture and photography.

photo by Filip Berendt

The still life genre is concerned with the documentation of inanimate objects over time through mediums that are appropriate to a particular period. As we are increasingly enhancing our reality with online platforms and screen-based imagery, the objects that we engage with and our experiences have transformed. Our lives have become subject to an online/of ine pendulum that draws on a new array of senses and further challenges the concept of image and text materiality.

photo by Natalia Podgórska

For this edition we asked the Polish artist Magda Buczek to explore what might happen to the still life image in a post internet era. How will these developments shape the future of the still life genre? What medium will we chose to express these multidimensional situations that make up the future and continuously evolving domestic landscapes? Buczek challenges these ideas in her installation SLOW DOWNLOAD – an immersive project fueled with gifs and Instagram-enhanced colours that tell the story of a jet-set generation stuck between the of ine and the online.

Please join us at Doomed Gallery Dalston for the opening of So What Poland ft. Slow Download on Thursday 2nd February 2017 from 6-9pm. The show will continue until Sunday the 5th February 7pm.

Friday, the 3rd at 7pm we are hosting an artist talk: Magda Buczek in conversation with the curators Anna-Sophia John and Gosia Fricze.