‘Geographic coordinates – fear of memory loss’.



In this project, I would like to deal with habituation, a specific kind of becoming immunized to pictures (noticed and registered).

I would like to propose the project consisting of photographs and an element of action. This project refers to my individual attitude to experiencing places, spaces and images associated with them.

The purpose of my PhD dissertation is to show how I can make relations with the outside world and register them in photographs. How to cause the images which I experience and register to be less susceptible to blurring, forgetting, loss of significance.

A part of my creative activity is related to travelling. However, I do not mean being a tourist.

I mean photography which records my emotions and my attitude to experiencing.

Art is a way of establishing contact between me and the outside world, and at the same time it describes this world.

Geographic coordinates are strings of numbers only. By choosing places in space, I can mark and remember them.

These places and the way to them become close to me. They are important points on the map of my inner coordinates.

Taming and remembering them will be the purpose of the work. Making a relationship that will last longer than the moment of taking photographs.

What is important for me is, on the one hand, recording emotions, and on the other, distinguishing the places I have chosen.

Taming these places by my memory about them and their memory about me.

How do I want to do it? I mentioned that I would like to employ an element of action besides photography. When I travel, I will take tree seedlings with myself. I am planning to plant trees in the places of my choice, and simultaneously register not only the very action of planting trees, but, first of all, the space in which it is taking place, and people whom I meet. And all the way between these places. Trees, of course, are also essential; they are the seedlings from the red horse chestnut, growing in my backyard in Łódź. It is an old tree, growing since 1930. The trees which I see everyday.

Trees will become catalysts of present and future actions. Such choice of action determines my attitude. I want to add, not to deduct.

My project consists in exploring relations between memory and photography, and creating a photographic image as the description of the internal and external world at the same time.

It consists in finding out what scope of experience is contained in a photographic image.