The set of slides documents the artist exchanging clothes with homeless people in public spaces. Orłowski addresses the issue of exclusion, but also, more broadly, of human interactions. The work has been shown in more than 40 solo and group exhibitions. The project has been described and discussed in the book Work for Small Change, published by Ujazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Art in Warsaw and Arsenal Municipal Gallery in Poznań (Distributor: Vice Versa Art Books, Berlin). The work is held in the collection of the Ujazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Art in Warsaw and in a private collection.
O artystce
Franciszek Orłowski, born 1984, conceptual artist, sculptor, and video creator. In 2010, he graduated from the Faculty of Intermedia at the University of Arts in Poznań. He completed his diploma in intermedia under the supervision of Prof. Mirosław Bałka and Prof. Piotr Kurka. His projects are existential in nature, often relate to interpersonal relationships, their absence, or shortcomings, and reflect on the status of humankind in contemporary world. His work was shown in a number of exhibitions, including: British British Polish Polish (Ujazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Art, Warsaw, 2013), ART IST KUKU NU UT, PRADA PRAVDA (Tartu, Estonia, 2013), The Splendour of Textiles (Zachęta Gallery, Warsaw, 2013), Apoptoza (BWA Wrocław, 2012), Double Game (Polish-Ukrainian special project carried out as part of the 1st International Biennial of Contemporary Art, Mystetskyi Arsenal, Kyiv, 2012), Potential City (Arsenał Gallery, Białystok, 2012), Selected Projects (BWA Zielona Góra, 2011), Do It Like This (Stereo, Poznań, 2010), Zerreißproben (Lepiziger Kreis, Leipzig, 2010), Ain’t No Sorry (Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw, 2008).
