In the video You Are Standing in My Place, the artist repeatedly smashes a glowing light bulb with a golf club. Before each successive swing, the title of one of Knaflewski’s works appears on the screen. The light bulb can be interpreted as a metaphor for an idea, a flash of consciousness… The artist symbolically destroys these ideas. Each time a light bulb is broken, the light goes out, and at that point the titles of Knaflewski’s other works appear. The violent sound of the smashed glass lends the video, importantly, a rather ominous rhythm.

Leszek Knaflewski is a visual artist and an outstanding educator. He was born and lived in Poznań. He created installations, objects, photographs, drawings, video works, and audio-performances. From the 1990s, his work was situated at the intersection of visual arts and music. He constructed object-instruments, such as the “Electric Coffin,” which he played and used in acoustic spatial installations. Between 1980 and 1985, he studied at the State Higher School of Visual Arts in Poznań (later known as the Academy of Fine Arts, currently University of the Arts Poznań), where he obtained a degree in painting. He was a co-founder, member (1983–1990), and co-author of all public exhibitions of the Koło Klipsa group. He collaborated with several musical formations, including Rasa, Sten, Socrealism, Art Sound Project, Drum Machina, and Kot. Since 1990, he has been involved in teaching. He was a professor at the Faculty of Intermedia at the University of Arts in Poznań and at the Faculty of Arts at the University of Zielona Góra. His former students include artists such as Wojciech Bąkowski, Piotr Bosacki, and Konrad Smoleński. Knaflewski exhibited in Poland and abroad. He passed away in 2014.