I've been living in somebody's dream
Exhibition: Contrast Gallery, Warsaw, 2018
Exhibition: Contrast Gallery, Warsaw, 2018
The starting point of the narrative is the period of collaboration between Kiełbowicz and the Brussels-based Roberto Polo Gallery, and in particular the time spent as an artist-in-residence in the house of a countess, the art dealer's partner. Together with another Polish creator, Tomasz Partyka, for a month they were supposed to stay in confinement, like renaissance painters, to admire the beauty of the surrounding nature. As a result, the idyllic landscape quickly turned into an oppressive scenery, and the inability to get out of the golden cage only intensified the impression of alienation and derealization.
The entire complex, which consisted of many hectares of gardens and a house, was built in the 80s. The main inspiration for the interior design and architecture was the world of dreams that haunted the owner in childhood. The whole created, therefore, a unique, emotional, oneiric character, reflecting deeply hidden fascinations and fears of the founder. Wooden slide houses in the shape of birds, waxen heads and mannequins, enormous beds suspended from the ceiling, as well as numerous collections of photographs depicting the world and the bygone life caused that the painter was practically thrown into someone else's completely incomprehensible reality. |