The Work
The work of Andrzej Jackowski (born 1947, North Wales) is largely autobiographical, based on his early childhood memories, recollections of a family history in Poland and the feeling of alienation and enclosure that these experiences roused. Using powerful, insistent images from his past he explores ideas of human memory and psyche, both on a personal and more collective level.
Time of the Dream - 7, which features in this show, came out of a Paupers Press commission to produce a book of 52 lithographs - one a week for a year. A sense of this project is in the following quote:
"..a place of life and death,of disembodiment and sex; a place of things breaking up and being put together again. It is a subconscious land which distils the essence of the self."
Rachel Campbell-Johnston
The Process
Seamus Heaney wrote that for him,writing a poem;
"was like dropping a bucket down a well of yourself", most of the
time you bring up air, but with patience,trust and hard work you eventually fill
the bucket with water. This process (for writing poems or making images) is
difficult but when you finally bring up a bucket of water rather then air;
there is a feeling that you have come up with something intriguing,haunting;
there is some clarity and occasionally great joy.
More
For more see the two videos below.
This is an excerpt from Andrzej Jackowski's video commentary for the exhibition Dreams of Here, shown at the Brighton Museum and Art Gallery in 2012. It was a collective exhibition in collaboration with Tom Hammick and Julian Bell.
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