Lives of the unholy

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Based on his home city, Warsaw, the Polish photographer Krszysztof Pijarski examines the phenomenon of the destruction of monuments in Poland at the time of the political transition. He creates montages using his own shots of Warsaw’s plazas and photos he has taken of archive photographs. The montages visualize different layers of time and make what has past visible by the fact that it is now absent. Hence the artist creates an archive of the places where the aesthetic of disappearence has been inscribed in the physical and symbolic web of the city. The simultaneous existence of the different layers of time thus becomes an indispensable design element, which gives visibilty to things that have become invisible. The photographic reconstruction of memory ensures that these memories are preserved. The complexity of our perception of reality, as it is dealt with in the work of Sophie Calle, is hence deepened on a purely photographic level and constantly highlights the role of the medium, which is immanent in the preservation, creation and construction of memory, as well as the significance and use of photographic archives. 00Exhibition: C/O Berlin, Germany (22.08. - 08.11.2015)