Fundacja Archeologii Fotografii presents:
Nicolas Grospierre / Tadeusz Sumiński
The Picture which grows
Part of the Living Archives series
Project launch and an afternoon picnic:
May 22 (Sunday), 3.00 pm – 8.00 pm
Venue: the apartment of Tadeusz Sumiński,
Ulica Koszykowa 1, Apt. 82 and in the green courtyard
The picture which grows will be on view from May 23 to June 11, 2011
Mondays to Fridays, 4.00 pm – 8.00 pm, Saturdays 12.00 – 5.00 pm
Koszykowa 1, Apt. 82, Warsaw
The picture which grows, a project by Nicolas Grospierre (b. 1975) realized in the apartment of the photographer Tadeusz Sumiński (1924-2009), is a new event in the Living Archives series, organized by the Archeology of Photography Foundation, which seeks to establish a creative dialogue between the classic figures of Polish photography and contemporary artists.
The picture which grows is an attempt at confronting the ideas of tidiness and untidiness, the static and the dynamic, order and entropy, in the form of a photographic installation. It is also a clash of the order informing the archive of Tadeusz Sumiński and a method that aims to disturb this order. The installation consists of Sumiński’s archive accompanied by 800 photographs of the apartment and the archive taken by Nicolas Grospierre and mounted on the walls, ceiling and the floor. Grospierre photographed the interior of a room, made a print, mounted it in the same room in order to photograph it, develop, and photograph again, repeating the process up to a point when the room was completely filled with photographs of itself.