The installation, which consists of a video and a kinetic object, was created during the artist's residency at the 2 światy gallery in Krakow. The video is a record of the performative calligraphy of the author's text about the creative process and overcoming stagnation. The text is available below. In the installation shown at the exhibition that crowning the residency, the video recording of the artist writing a text on the wall is juxtaposed with a kinetic object, a machine enclosed in a plexiglass box, which constantly and tirelessly tries to write down the wall in front of it. At the exhibition, we could follow the struggle of man and machine, and listen to the rhythms of their brush movements.

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“Movement, Breath, Space” 2 światy gallery, Kraków, 2022
Curator: Małgorzata Białek

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Patronage: Ministry of Culture and National Heritage, Zachęta - National Gallery of Art, Jan Matejko's Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow, Sztuka Kaligrafii Foundation.

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The hardest thing is to start, text from the performance

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"The hardest thing is to start, every beginning requires an act of will, a force that will break the void and set in motion what has so far remained stagnant; will give an energy vector. The hardest thing is to start and we all experience it all the time, every time we have to oppose what we find, we are accompanied - before taking action - by a moment of doubt, and hesitation before violating a certain order, the breaking of which is a key point, but requiring the greatest will. The moment preceding the act of action is the most intense experience. Beginning is the hardest part, but the end is the hardest part. Everything that is between them can be called a state of suspension, suspension between the appearance of a stain on a piece of paper and its erasure and disappearance, between fullness and emptiness, between being and non-being. There are no infinite things in the world that we experience with the senses and process with the mind, they do not exist in the reality that we can perceive and touch, although we are embedded in infinity. However, it does not belong to our surroundings, where constant changes fill the air."