Tomek
Zerek
The Horizon
Time is experience –
a multidimensional and ambiguous one. When measured by events it flies
quickly, struggles forward at the speed of news press agencies try
to be the first to break – then falls into oblivion almost immediately.
When measured by the unchanging horizon line it seems to be slowing
down, almost stopping. Only changing structures, colours, the elusive
play of water and sand let us see how it flies.
Zerek’s project bases on the clash between these two experiences
– time measured by nature and described with the variability
of light and ephemeral matter with time measured by people according
to current events. For seven days he visited the same spot on a beach
at many different hours to record the changing horizon line. Each
photo has then been tagged with a piece of news Polish Press Agency
had published at the moment of taking the picture. In these seven
stories depicted in seven photos the world of nature interweaves with
the human world.
Tomek Zerek(born 1976) – photographer; graduated from the Faculty
of Multimedia Communication at the Academy of Fine Arts in Poznan,
attended the School of Artistic Photography in Gdansk, studied history
at the University of Gdansk. He usually presents his photographs in
series. His works: “The Collection of Dreams”, “Jeden
miesiac”(“One Month”), “Spotkanie” (“The
Meeting”), “Zaspa Zerka”(“Zerek’s Bank”)
were exhibited at the Gdansk Gallery of Photography, National Art
Gallery in Sopot, Fotohof Gallery in Salzburg, “Zak” Gallery
in Gdansk, etc.Awarded the City of Gdansk Award (2002), received the
Scholarship of the President of the City of Gdansk (2003), the Scholarship
of the Marshall of Pomeranian Voivodship (2007) and of the Mobile
Academy Warsaw (2006). Lives and works in Tricity (Trójmiasto).
