Lookout Gallery will put on show a project titled “Dead Vistula” by the photographer Mateusz Kiszka. The exhibition will consist of series of photographs documenting the landscape along the so-called Dead Vistula, the biggest Polish river's artificial Baltic Sea estuary. While wandering, the artist photographed deserted fragments of the urban fabric along the Dead Vistula riverside – the silent witnesses of history. His photographs depict wrecks of British ships supplying food after the World War II, a dike built by the Dutch settlers in the 17th century, the decaying Gdansk Shipyard, Westerplatte or dying out fishing villages. As the artist himself wrote: “the photographs were created out of the urge 'to save' the landscape which is disappearing irrevocably”.
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The second edition of TRAFO MEDIA LAB presents a dialogue between two emerging artists exploring the history and changing functions of places. “Dead Vistula”, a series of photographs by Mateusz Kiszka, examines the area of an artificial estuary of the Vistula, formerly regulating the river flow during the spring thaw. His photographs document the time-
affected landscape, a seemingly trivial place that has witnessed a number of important events in the history of Poland.
The video “Warsaw Municipal Gasworks” by Urszula Kozak shows the interior of the water-filled rotunda. The impressive building was a part of the Warsaw Municipal Gasworks that was closed down in 1978. The artist interferes in the space of the abandoned and decaying structure.
© Ursula Kozak
The series of 29...