Chłód (eng. Coldness)

Photographs from the debut solo exhibition (July 11, 2024 – August 30, 2024).
I transform water through photographic chance, and all of the images are bound together by the presence of inclement weather — created during storms, frost, or falling rain. These are not typical frames that “capture” or “freeze” reality; they were made using long exposure techniques, revealing motion in contrast to seemingly permanent elements. This duality becomes a study of the passage of time, with clouds, water, and birds as its symbols.

This is also photography on the edge of realism. It does not depict the world as it appears but instead dresses it in metaphor, far from the tautologies of reportage. The surface of the Baltic Sea becomes cotton candy, a pane of glass, or liquid nitrogen spilling across a white table.

Above all, however, the photographs in Chłód challenge what can be communicated. They carry within them a non-semantic excess — something that can only be seen and felt.