Sergiusz Kuchczyński
"Layers"
The exhibition “Layers” is a selection of works created after the year 2012. The core of the collection are objects made as a part of my doctoral thesis, supplemented by later works or those presented never before.
Since the very beginning I treated the corset – subject of my doctoral thesis – as a kind of cover or layer. Eventually it turned out that the problem I chose had a great potential for resulting issues and it would define the space of my artistic interests. This art concept emerged from the treatment of the corset as a symbolic form, an idea rather than a material entity.
The corset in my works proved to be a synonym of time and its transience, of destruction and the will to staunch it. It is a pursuit after beauty, limitation but also liberation. It becomes a norm, but rejects what is fixed and approved. It protects, but also separates. In my understanding the whole world becomes a corset – the world unknown, secretive, waiting anxiously to be discovered. One corset covers another and so on into infinity, layer after layer, it reveals or hides another structure.
