Middle Age exhibition at the WRO Art Center (28.01—13.03.2011) features 11 installations and video works, most of which were especially created for the show, dealing with time as a container of the artist’s personal and family memories, with the sense of its feeling and its passing away. In a manner typical for his practice, Tomasz Domański utilizes different media (video, sound, hollywood movies, photography, X—Ray photography), electric and mechanical structures and constructions, and natural materials — wood, clay, ice. More ↓↑
Middle age. „Middle—age crisis. It’s like a teacher that suddenly makes me answer a lot of hard questions in front of the whole class, and I’m not prepared, but I don’t have any excuses — I knew I’d be called on to answer. So what’s the score, at this (optimistically speaking!) halfway point? How much have I let slide — how many projects have I neglected, because the bar was set too high? You could point out that I’ve fulfilled the old proverb: I’ve built house, planted a tree and I have a beautiful son. But I still feel uneasy. I don’t have the sense of certainty goes along with self—satisfaction. The only thing I know for sure is that it’s important to fight against routine, because it’s routine that destroys our curiosity – our sense of mystery, of some kind of surprise that’s worth taking a chance for. And the older a person gets, the harder it is to take chances. That’s why I treat middle age as a choice. It’s only now that I’m getting a sense of what risk is — an attractive uncertainty.”
(Tomasz Domański, December 2010/January 2011)
Place and date of documentation: Middle Age exhibition, WRO Art Center, Wrocław, 28.01—13.03.2011
