The Silent Room Gallery is proud to announce its first exhibition, a photographic installation by the emerging Polish artist-photographer Karolina Maria Dudek. Dudek’s work challenges the orthodoxy of photography as a two-dimensional medium for representation of the instant, and, in artistic tradition, seeks to explore a reality existing in the imagination, behind the here-and-now. By creating installations, the third dimension presented by the gallery space becomes an element in her work, inviting the viewer to their own interpretation of the confluence of her work’s meaning, the space and reality. The subject of her work is the human being or their absence in the world.
Hate is part of an ongoing work, Faces, which explores the face as an identity key, just as a bar-code identifies a consumer product. As an identity code, the face in portrait representation can be digitally manipulated from multiple sources, for example by juxtaposing different people’s portraits, or sampling portraits across the human lifespan. In Hate, Dudek seeks to identify her own loss of innocence, and studies her own face as she contemplates or expresses disgust or hatred of the world.
Runs July 16 – August 15, 2010
Private View Thursday July 15th, 6-8 pm
Open daily 10-6pm
Silent Room Gallery
76 Atlantic Roud
London SW9 8PX
Tube: Brixton