kinoMANUAL WINTER SHOWROOM

On these short, grey and cold days that quickly turn into long, dark and frosty nights, we invite you to the warm, colourful, soft and filled with sound Winter Showroom, which was created in the interiors of the Gallery by the Wrocław duo kinoMANUAL, founded by two visual artists Aga Jarząb and Maciek Bączyk.

kinoMANUAL it’s a small, independent audiovisual production company from Wrocław, focused on experimenting with moving image and sound.

kinoMANUAL’s exhibition brings cinema and photography together, reaching back to the sources and foundations of both media – to light, the transience of the image, the experience of its magic through analogue equipment. It blurs the boundaries between film and photography, creating a space where these media reflect each other, where “intermediality” ceases to be a theoretical term and becomes an experience.

The time when we have prepared and opened our “salon” is no coincidence. The duration of the exhibition overlaps with the calendar winter, and its last weeks traditionally marked the difficult hungry gap. Technology also plays an important role in the exhibition. The use of analogue equipment evokes nostalgia for its beauty and durability, precise design and quality production. It redirects our attention to the basic components of the photographic image and the process of its creation, referring to the archaeology of the media and going beyond the routine of presenting photographs – finished effects. The presence of old-fashioned projectors and loudspeakers in the gallery space is a reference to the exhibitions held here in the past, which also used them. In their artistic practice, kinoMANUAL transform the aforementioned equipment, extending its original functions to create installations and kinetic objects. It is nice to be around them, watch their movements, listen to the sounds they make. So take a seat in the salon, let your thoughts and eyes sink into the images which, as is so rare today, bring solace.

Paweł Bąkowski

Curator: Paweł Bąkowski
Exhibition architecture: Hubert Kielan
Coordination: Olga Krzywiecka
Accompanying program: Miretta Kempa

Music scene production: Discomfort Booking / Hubert Kostkiewicz
Visual identification: Zofia Jaros
Exhibition realization: Michał Perucki

Media patrons: TVP Kultura, Kwartalnik FOTOGRAFIA, Radio Wrocław Kultura, Contemporary Lynx, Miesięcznik Odra, Magazyn Szum, Pismo Artystyczne Format

The project was financed from the budget of the Lower Silesian Voivodeship Government