Places-Non-Places / 2007 / Lublin
The Places-Non-Places project consists of a series of 27 photographs divided into three parts: people, places, everyman. The works were created in the years 2002-2007 and are a record of people met on different continents, in different countries and places. The work raises the problem of stereotypes concerning the appearance of people inhabiting a given area and the place itself. We carry certain cultural clichés that have arisen as a result of the photos or films we have watched. These ideas function and interact with our views on a given place or people. During meetings with a live person and a real place, we have to confront what we know about a given place and how we imagined it with what really exists. Often such a confrontation shocks us, removes the mask of the place, de-bunks the clichés rooted in us. The last set shows 9 multiplied versions of photographs showing one man-Everyman. He can appear in almost any cultural context. Each photo in the presented series is accompanied by a caption concerning the viewed place or person, placed at the very end of the presentation. It can be a big surprise for the viewer when he or she discovers a different identity of a place or person than he or she previously assumed.



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