Grzegorz Drozd

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Proximity/Bliskość – Polish contemporary art exhibition in Bangkok July 4 – October 25, 2015

Organized by BACC Exhibition department in collaboration with inSPIRACJE International Visual Art Festival '13 MUZ’

Cyngwajsy, Universal, Proximity, BACC, Bangkok, Grzegorz Drozd, 2015

Gigant, Proximity, BACC, Bangkok, Grzegorz Drozd, 2015

Farang, Proximity, BACC, Bangkok, Grzegorz Drozd, 2015

Cyngwajsy, Proximity, BACC, Bangkok, Grzegorz Drozd, 2015

,,In my opinion, the most engaging body of work by a far was by the hand of Grzegorz Drozd who through his work, makes visible the exclusion and melancholia of the Dudziarska housing estate. In one video, Substitute Label, you see two kids trying to move a piece of square wooden furniture to a camp they are building to play in. The effort and play of the children are set against the background of huge, grey impersonal post-soviet living blocks. The voice over is lending ideas connected to Modernism, creating a strange tension to the children’s play and modernist ideals in juxtaposition to the cold backdrop. Next to the video you see a large scale print of a painterly intervention, titled Universal, on the same building blocks: large black rectangular shapes, filling the facades of three buildings in a row. The reference to Malevich black square, overlaid on the tall concrete walls: a simple suggestion to reflect upon the relationship between a functionalism, a living quarter produced not for individuals but for a supposed unity, and between ideas of high constructivist and modernist ideals. He also showed a series of six photographs, under the title Cynwajsy displaying the face of the same man, the text accompanying the work contained a list terms used by prisoners as body painting, to show characteristics and affiliations. The three works feels strongly linked because they suggest a cluster of relationships to a specific location and people: because of the works poetic space, you as a viewer cannot but empathize with the people inside those grey blocks.,,   BY APICHAYA WANTHIANG

Gigant, Proximity, BACC, Bangkok, Grzegorz Drozd, 2015

Farang, Proximity, BACC, Bangkok, Grzegorz Drozd, 2015

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