Collection

The artist, sitting on the ground near the intersection of Piłsudski and Rydz-Śmigły, seems preoccupied, as if he is struggling to "let go of his imagination" to which the logo with the Imagine slogan seems to urge. He nervously shifts his seat, covering random parts of the sign with his body. The word Imagine becomes a cluster of meaningless letters.

This is not the first time Bodzianowski has changed the meaning of an advertisement with his actions - like 2009, when he stood on a 5-meter ladder in front of a giant billboard with a reproduction of a fragment of the Last Judgment fresco, positioning himself between the finger of God pointing straight at it and the caption "Full HD. Picture perfect."

Selected for our collection, Bodzianowski's video-recorded "events" tell the story of the artist's relationship with the city in which he lives. The backgrounds of the scenes are unremarkable places and anonymous, often dilapidated elements of infrastructure. For the artist, however, they become successive fragments of his personal, scattered portrait of Lodz.

Artist, performer, author of ephemeral art activities. He also creates Dadaist sculpture-objects. He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw and the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp. Bodzianowski's actions take the form of delicate, almost imperceptible interventions into reality. The artist is their main character, who disrupts the daily routine with his ephemeral actions. The witnesses of Bodzianowski's absurd and poetic actions, which usually take place on city streets, in parks or at home, are usually ordinary passers-by. We can later watch these ephemeral actions recorded on video tape or photographed by the artist's wife Monika Chojnicka, who is often also their only eyewitness. The artist, lives and works in Lodz, a city that has become a peculiar setting for his actions.