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We invite you to an exhibition of photography by our students entitled TOMORROW WAS YESTERDAY, exploring the concept of time and memory - on 30, May at 6 p.m. at the MeMo Mediatheque. / PHOTO REPORT
What is an archive today? – the one we work with on the subject of the past, but also the one which is supposed to serve us in the future? Isn’t it the case that on the one hand, the archive stops time, being a testimony to history, and on the other hand, it is itself affected by time, changing its materiality into non-existence? Are the methods of preserving memory at all durable?
A group of students from the Lodz Film School use various methods of imaging to bring new life to old photographs. In this way, the resulting works, which combine traditional photography with contemporary photographic techniques, redefine the functions of the archive as well as individual and collective memory. The anonymous and public archival photographs used gain a completely different meaning not only through the author's perspective put together in a group presentation, but also through interaction with the audience. Therefore, the key that unites all the works is not an objective timeline, but a subjective "axis of memory" or even "axis of non-memory". Is then archiving a process of remembering or forgetting?
Archiving is theoretically supposed to help with remembering, but in practice it simply means that we can forget about something for a while. So it is forgetting with the intention of remembering it in the future. But will we be able to use the information produced today if we live in an increasingly immaterial, information-filled reality? What will archives look like in the future? What would we change in the ways of preserving memories if tomorrow were yesterday?
Following the point of view of the authors of the works, we note that a contemporary archive can make sense if it is not a static storage of memories, but their creative transformation.
Curator: Marcela Paniak
Co-curator: Bartosz Kałużny Nachtigal
MeMo Mediatheque coordinator: Anna Kidoń
Artists: Julia Bader, Katarzyna Ćwikła, Joanna Chojna, Karolina Jaunzems, Bartosz Kałużny Nachtigal, Martyna Łukasiewicz, Anna Pabijańczyk-Staniszewska, Aleksandra Pstrągowska, Karolina Włodarkiewicz - second year students of part-time photography studies at the Lodz Film School.
The concept of presenting the works was prepared together with the Picture Doc Foundation team (Julia Klewaniec, Wioletta Kulas, Michalina Kacperak, Łukasz Pawłowski) during the exhibition which was held from 11 to 29, Sept., 2024 at the Duży Pokój Studio in Warsaw.
The exhibition is the result of "Archival Photography" classes conducted for photography students in the 1st year of part-time studies by Marcela Paniak in the academic year 2023/2024 at the Lodz Film School.
TOMORROW WAS YESTERDAY spinoff.fotofestiwal.com/event
30.05.2025 – 17.06.2025
MeMo Mediatheque,
5, Stanisława Moniuszki Street, Łódź
The exhibition can be viewed during the opening hours of the MeMo Mediatheque:
Tue-Sat 10:00-20:00
Sun 10:00-18:00
Free admission.
Exhibition opening: 30, May, 2025 at 6:00 p.m.
Exhibition closing plus accompanying event: 17, June, 2025 at 6:00 p.m.
As part of the accompanying event (17, June), there will be a meeting with Bartłomiej Talaga.
During the meeting, we will discuss artistic practice that intertwines photography and sound – not as separate forms of expression, but as interdependent traces of presence. Based on two publications published by the Lodz Film School Publishing House – the photobook "Spacer po_lesie" and the audio cassette "Impulse Response / Odtruwanie Studni" – we will look at how contemporary and archival materials can become an impulse to create an artistic statement.
The meeting will focus not only on the material itself, but above all on the way it is processed – an original action based on meditative work and active sensitivity of the medium. A medium that does not so much tell a story as allows it to emerge – during the present presence and in compassion. The presentation of selected photographs from the photobook and listening to fragments of the cassette will become part of the event and an invitation to reflect on what an internal archive – personal – can be. If we give up linearity and objectivity, the question arises: is an affective archive – one that sounds inwards – possible?
The exhibition is part of the Spin Off programme at the 2025 Fotofestiwal in Łódź.
Join the event on FB: facebook.com/events
A group of students from the Lodz Film School use various methods of imaging to bring new life to old photographs. In this way, the resulting works, which combine traditional photography with contemporary photographic techniques, redefine the functions of the archive as well as individual and collective memory. The anonymous and public archival photographs used gain a completely different meaning not only through the author's perspective put together in a group presentation, but also through interaction with the audience. Therefore, the key that unites all the works is not an objective timeline, but a subjective "axis of memory" or even "axis of non-memory". Is then archiving a process of remembering or forgetting?
Archiving is theoretically supposed to help with remembering, but in practice it simply means that we can forget about something for a while. So it is forgetting with the intention of remembering it in the future. But will we be able to use the information produced today if we live in an increasingly immaterial, information-filled reality? What will archives look like in the future? What would we change in the ways of preserving memories if tomorrow were yesterday?
Following the point of view of the authors of the works, we note that a contemporary archive can make sense if it is not a static storage of memories, but their creative transformation.
Curator: Marcela Paniak
Co-curator: Bartosz Kałużny Nachtigal
MeMo Mediatheque coordinator: Anna Kidoń
Artists: Julia Bader, Katarzyna Ćwikła, Joanna Chojna, Karolina Jaunzems, Bartosz Kałużny Nachtigal, Martyna Łukasiewicz, Anna Pabijańczyk-Staniszewska, Aleksandra Pstrągowska, Karolina Włodarkiewicz - second year students of part-time photography studies at the Lodz Film School.
The concept of presenting the works was prepared together with the Picture Doc Foundation team (Julia Klewaniec, Wioletta Kulas, Michalina Kacperak, Łukasz Pawłowski) during the exhibition which was held from 11 to 29, Sept., 2024 at the Duży Pokój Studio in Warsaw.
The exhibition is the result of "Archival Photography" classes conducted for photography students in the 1st year of part-time studies by Marcela Paniak in the academic year 2023/2024 at the Lodz Film School.
TOMORROW WAS YESTERDAY spinoff.fotofestiwal.com/event
30.05.2025 – 17.06.2025
MeMo Mediatheque,
5, Stanisława Moniuszki Street, Łódź
The exhibition can be viewed during the opening hours of the MeMo Mediatheque:
Tue-Sat 10:00-20:00
Sun 10:00-18:00
Free admission.
Exhibition opening: 30, May, 2025 at 6:00 p.m.
Exhibition closing plus accompanying event: 17, June, 2025 at 6:00 p.m.
As part of the accompanying event (17, June), there will be a meeting with Bartłomiej Talaga.
During the meeting, we will discuss artistic practice that intertwines photography and sound – not as separate forms of expression, but as interdependent traces of presence. Based on two publications published by the Lodz Film School Publishing House – the photobook "Spacer po_lesie" and the audio cassette "Impulse Response / Odtruwanie Studni" – we will look at how contemporary and archival materials can become an impulse to create an artistic statement.
The meeting will focus not only on the material itself, but above all on the way it is processed – an original action based on meditative work and active sensitivity of the medium. A medium that does not so much tell a story as allows it to emerge – during the present presence and in compassion. The presentation of selected photographs from the photobook and listening to fragments of the cassette will become part of the event and an invitation to reflect on what an internal archive – personal – can be. If we give up linearity and objectivity, the question arises: is an affective archive – one that sounds inwards – possible?
The exhibition is part of the Spin Off programme at the 2025 Fotofestiwal in Łódź.
Join the event on FB: facebook.com/events
PHOTO REPORT made by Karolina Jaunzems and Aleksandra Pstrągowska.