KIELCE CHRONICLE
How to communicate the truth of a man’s life? How to show the city I’ve come back
to after so many years?
In Kielce Chronicle, on shards of porcelain plates I illustrate a fragmented history of
my life: people, family and the place where I live and create.
And it is a particular place where history is still alive, where dust of oblivion has not
covered the traces of past and tragic events yet, on the contrary, they have been
remembered and they still have been painful.
The documentation of both personal and collective memory, saturated with images of
dramatic acts and happy moments of life, has become the material and the process of
my work at the same time. Fragments of images both from the past and present days
have created one eclectic matter, fused in to pieces of domestic porcelain.
The multitude of porcelain fractions, covered with ceramic decals with fragments of
pictures, piled loosely in the table hollow, creates a porcelain sea of history and the
present day, which – by intermingling with each other – evoke unexpected
associations and emotional representations.
The shards fill the open hollow in the wooden table. Two benches, where one can sit
to contemplate the work, stand next to the table.
Kielce Chronicle is an interactive installation. The viewers are welcome to reach to
the inside of the table and take out the porcelain bits, to watch and study the
illustrations placed on them.
Finding meaningful fragments, watching memory-provoking images, discovering
details that remind our own lives, enliven imagination and evoke emotions.
The audience becomes creators – they take out and put the porcelain pieces back into
the table hollow, what sustains the work’s constant movement, they continuously
remix history in a visual collage of enigmatic mass.
The substance of encrypted archeology creates matters suspended in time, without
any order or chronology; it engages the viewer in seeing my life and my city through
associations and imagination, recorded in monochrome on the pieces of the Kielce
Chronicle.
Marek Cecuła
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KIELCE CHRONICLE
Kielce Chronicle is an interactive installation.
Visitors are invited to participate by picking up the fragments of porcelain, reviewing
the images and returning them in new configuration to the void of the table.
PLEASE RESPECT THIS WORK... DON’T REMOVE THE FRAGMENTS OF
PORCELAIN, THEY ARE LIMITED AND ORIGINALS.