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Hidden in A Daylight is an international exhibition put on by the Foksal Gallery Foundation that is to accompany this year's Nowe Horyzonty w Cieszynie (New Horizons in Cieszyn) Film Festival (17-27th of July). This exhibition will collect together together sixteen artists whose works, to differing degrees, make reference to the mechanisms that rule cinema. Each of them, in their own specific manner, shows how far we permit ourselves to be deceived by cinema fiction, how uncritical we are of other peoples' visions and just how easily we adapt our world view to them. Accustomed to film projections in galleries, we often fail to realize the subversive effect these can have on the cinematographic tradition, from which, let it be noted, they appear to draw abundant inspiration. The artists aim to point out our credulity and tendency to abandon real life in favour of a manufactured reality. We assimilate somebody else's memories; we are moved by the drama played out by non-existent heroes, we use fictitious dialogues - ones that are over-used and shabby, devoid of any emotion or substance. We lose sight of our own lives, and the images flickering before us are but universal formulas and solutions. Date: 17th - 27th July 2003, during the 4th Era New Horizons Film Festival in Cieszyn Place: Cieszyn Project partner: 3rd Era New Horizons Film Festival in Cieszyn, Gutek Film Participating artists:Pawel Ałthamer, Cezary Bodzianowski, Christoph Büchel, Jeremy Deller, Jeanne Faust, Omer Fast, Mark Leckey, Mark Lewis, Rosalind Nashashibi, Anna Niesterowicz, Enrique Metinides, Mathilde Rosier, Wilhelm Sasnal, Piotr Uklański, Artur Żmijewski and Paulina OłowskaCurators:Joanna Mytkowska, Andrzej Przywara, Adam SzymczykTeam:Joanna Diem, Sebastian Cichocki |
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