The solo show of works by Pawel Fabjanski was one of the first exhibitions I have held in Fort Institute of Photography. As for most exhibitions in IFF I have designed its typography, visual identity and posters. I was also responsible for production including the set design production.
Text by curator – Krzysztof Pijarski: Paweł Fabjański decided to play. To play (with) the devices of capture, the apparatuses of the forest that keeps studying us. He scrutinizes the machine that the forest is, and through which we believe we are striding, in the instant we feel its caresses. His models’ bodies are covered in markers, allowing for the capture of the nature of our gait, our facial expressions, even for the reconstruction of the body as an autonomous whole; despite its absence, its death, having descended into nothingness. He shows the futility of confrontation, of the solitary battle with the animal: all bearings disappear, the space melts away, and what remains is the studying, the rubbing of bones against each other, the pain.
