Cabinet of True Horizons ( How far can you see? )
11.05 - 13.06.2018
curated by Stach Szabłowski
How far can you see? - asks Michał Martychowiec in one of his works on display at the Cabinet of True Horizons exhibition in the Rodriguez Gallery. The horizon is a crucial figure in the show: not just as its topic, but precisely as its visual boundary. Can you collect perspectives? Fields of view? Many of the artworks gathered within the Cabinet refer to the line and notion of horizon. Others evoke the figure of the eye. These two things are strictly related; the horizon line is defined by our view and appears to be true, but only from the point of view of the beholder. Therefore, Cabinet of True Horizons is a show about looking, about how much we can perceive and how far we can see.
This ephemeral collection of works, placed in the Cabinet of True Horizons for the time of the exhibition, provides material to study the possible roles of art in defining our field of view. Can artworks be viewed as horizons, delimiting our field of view? Does the artwork’s meaning lie beyond its visual horizon - the horizon we must transcend to understand what we see?
Technology has made us almost omniscient, but paradoxically, our field of view keeps shrinking; the world has never been so visible, but it’s also less and less transparent. Art responds with another kind of intransparency - one that draws the viewer into looking beyond the horizon of what we are shown.
Stach Szabłowski
Dalila Gonçalves
Agnieszka Grodzińska
Kornel Janczy
Jimena Kato
Michal Martychowiec
Franciszek Orłowski
Witek Orski
Maya Saravia
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Projekt dofinansowane z budżetu Miasta Poznania
