Collection

A damaged strip of repair netting hangs from the facade of a tenement at the intersection of Próchnika and Zachodnia Streets. It flies in the wind, clinging to lamp posts and street signs. For the artist, the tenement is a bride seeking attention. Dilapidated, abandoned, not of the first youth. The symbolic lifting of the veil is a gesture of consolation and companionship.

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.