Kacper Szalecki: Olimpia‘s Diary

Olympia gets recycled, many times over. Her latest manifestation is a series of photographs by Kacper Szalecki, who is only twenty years old but has already produced multiple art projects. Kacper: “My friend lay down in a pose mimicking Olympia in Manet’s painting, against a reproduction of Katarzyna Kozyra’s work of the same title. Since then, I began spontaneously documenting similar motifs and allusions to Olympia.” Kacper has been taking photographs for a year. He uses analog film, one 36-exposure roll per month. “Using a roll a month is a form of discipline,” he says. He has the time to contemplate “chance, absurdity, and composition,” to rework and make allusions, to create his own system—a mixture of whimsicality, brilliance, and maturity. 

Curator: Lidia Popiel

Kacper Szalecki (1996, Olsztyn) is a graduate of the Arts Secondary School in Gdynia-Orłów with a major in metalworking. He is interested in graphic art and photomontage. He has been taking analog photographs since July 2015, with a camera he received from a friend. His work often quotes famous pieces of European art and draws from the aesthetics of the 1990s.