Adrian Kolerski
An Attempt at Reconstruction
13.12.2024 - 22.01.2025
An Attempt at Reconstruction delves into the subjective perception of reality. Through creative processes, Adrian Kolerski explores the complexity of the relationship between material creations and their possible meanings. Following a change of meaning or loss of function, objects move away from the reality they have contributed to creating, nestling somewhere on its periphery. Often unrecognizable, these objects can hardly be identified and resist communication. Devoid of identity, ousted from their own histories, deformed, losing shapes, dimensions and colors they dissolve into one another. They are stuck between what they used to be and the possibility of becoming something else: liminal entities in a state of limbo. Exposure to such forms may elicit a sense of unreality and induce an aesthetic experience: a visual intoxication that brings back memories, triggers associations or incites conjectures, speculations and imaginings about them. In this context, the notion of “possibility” becomes a vital element involved in the eponymous attempt at reconstruction, revealing its creative potential. To the author of the exhibition, it does not consist in meticulous replication; instead, there is processing, referencing, suggestion—an attempt, no less, stemming from striving or effort that yields an idea of those objects.
It is no coincidence that “An Attempt at Reconstruction” echoes the title of a short story by Tadeusz Różewicz. Every day, its protagonist renews his attempts to rebuild the past world from the shreds of memories. He tries to recreate the complex life experiences he recalls in his mind through plentiful images and details of the reality around him. He reflects on concepts such as memory or identity , both of which float anchored somewhere on the axis of the past and the present.
The exhibited works take on an abstract, metaphorical form, as a material equivalent of multiple experiences. It is a collection of spatial and painterly hybrids, situated on the borderlines of media such as painting, object or installation. Whether we are dealing with a fragment of an object or its entirety can hardly be determined. Some of the works seem to transform and freeze in deformed shapes. Others, on the other hand, seem to delaminate, compress or expand again, suggesting continuity of the processes that they are undergoing.
By annexing components from the surroundings and combining them with plastic materials, the hybrid nature of the works is brought to the fore. In effect, the works lose their unequivocality and expand the image field. With the legible content on their surfaces reduced, attention shifts to the materiality of the object. By this means, it retains its autonomy on the one hand and, on the other, it gives the impression of “something familiar”, without falling into being an overt representation or a substitute for a specific item. The search for such a threshold (liminal) form presupposes interest in the object itself as a capacious formula—a vehicle of plural identities. This multiplicity is the key to comprehending the poetics of “almost definite” works, the corresponding term for which is permanently hanging on the tip of one’s tongue.
Wydarzenie dofinansowane z budżetu Miasta Poznania.
