When viewing Piotr's paintings 🎨, we are confronted with the consequences of hundreds of difficult decisions 🤔, which remain hidden under a thick layer of paint. The only decision we immediately perceive is the choice of perspective from which the subject is presented 👀.
We are offered two perspectives on reality. The first is one of distance 🌍—the gaze of a traveler 🧳, perhaps even a prophet 🕊, who eagerly shares his findings. We do not know to whom he directs his narrative, or if anyone is listening at all 🙁. A film 🎥, accompanying this vision, is projected onto the gallery building 🏛.
In a strange, boundless landscape 🏞, humanity appears as a tiny speck lost in the cosmic void 🌌, like a wayward dot on a monochromatic sheet of paper 📄. Anxiety permeates every frame 😨, like frost seeping under the skin ❄️. The narration we hear 🎧 is the monologue of someone desperately trying to make sense of what is likely senseless. He convinces himself that what he sees 👁 is not a figment of his imagination, even though everything suggests otherwise. His nonsensical observations lead nowhere 🚫. The characters in the film are not living people, but rather puppets in the hands of a cosmic director 🎭.
The second perspective reveals itself after crossing the gallery threshold 🚪. Here, we observe people up close 👥, with their fatigue 😓, scars 🩹, and all the ugliness of life 🌑. Someone is exercising, someone is fighting, someone is terrified. Fiction takes on the appearance of reality. This is a dystopian world where grotesque is the everyday, and every detail seems to be drawn from a nightmare 😱. This is not just an exhibition—it's a rite of passage 🔮, a journey into the mind 🧠 that discovers its deepest fears have an unsettlingly beautiful form 🌌. "Hello People" is a symphony of dissonance 🎶, where the boundaries between dream and reality blur to the point that you no longer know whether it's a dream 💤 or madness 🤪.
Fortunately, the artist himself 👨🎨 will be present at the opening, so all doubts will be clarified ✅.
Maciej Łuczak
The exhibition is made possible thanks to funding from the budget of the City of Łódź 💰.