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Artur Zmijewski

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Democracies is a large project including 20 individual short films. Between 2006 and 2009, Zmijewski documented different public events. The short films cover from protests against Israeli occupying forces in the Gaza Strip, to the funeral service for J�rg Haider in Klagenfurt, riots involving nationalist football hooligans during the 2006 World Championship in Germany, the 1st May skirmishes in Berlin, to feminist demonstrations and the re-enactments of political events such as the 1944 Warsaw Uprising. Zmijewski comments on these films: I chose the title �Democracies�, because it is an inherent lie. Not all of those are democracies. The aforementioned events attest to this, sometimes in a brutally pragmatic manner and, on other occasions, in a subtle and seemingly unconfrontational way. Here, Zmijewski explores the idea of �democracy� and demonstrates its absolute boundaries, as well as its inherent elasticity. The question of power, the distribution of power and the struggle for power are inevitable within this presentation.




Further Information and artist interview
http://www.cornerhouse.org/media/Art/Exhibition%20guides/AJ_GALLERY_GUIDE.pdf
Artur Zmijewski
Warsaw
Poland
Eastern Europe

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Represented by Foksal Gallery Foundation, Warsaw
Represented by Galerie Peter Kilchmann, Zurich
The Museum of Modern Art, New York
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