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Mioduszewski body of work concentrates on excluding parts of reality and then by transformation overlaying them back on reality. His Furniture Factory is an ongoing project of exploring boundaries between form and function and representation of form and function.
1 00:00:35,40 --> 00:00:39,07 I dress up as the timber.
2 00:00:39,67 --> 00:00:43,18 I dress up as a board. I dress up as a piece of furniture.
3 00:00:43,90 --> 00:00:49,32 I have a tend to going into the furniture.
4 00:00:50,07 --> 00:00:56,19 I have done this type of actions.
5 00:00:57,02 --> 00:01:03,98 The actions rely on the immobility, the mimicry and usage of costumes,
6 00:01:05,67 --> 00:01:11,48 which are painted in different kind of timber patterns.
7 00:01:12,85 --> 00:01:20,32 I have wanted to be like an object near other objects.
8 00:01:21,56 --> 00:01:35,59 I have wanted to give some life to nearby objects/paintings.
9 00:01:36,77 --> 00:01:44,18 Still performance in a whole is a living sculpture.
10 00:01:46,40 --> 00:01:47,78 When I stand still, covered up, hidden, dressed in costume -
11 00:01:48,11 --> 00:01:51,51 I use costumes that cover my whole figure - so my face is totally covered,
12 00:01:52,75 --> 00:02:03,35 it turns me into figure, a doll.
13 00:02:04,38 --> 00:02:08,20 And when it happens next to a painting and someone unprepared enters the gallery,
14 00:02:08,87 --> 00:02:11,01 someone who does not know that performance is happening
15 00:02:12,42 --> 00:02:16,01 it is perfect situation for me because I want it to be so that
16 00:02:16,49 --> 00:02:22,48 it is unknown when the performance is happening.
17 00:02:25,66 --> 00:02:28,76 Performance is just another step.
18 00:02:29,58 --> 00:02:35,24 I had a difficult time with painting.
19 00:02:36,02 --> 00:02:45,12 I wandered that it is hermetic, sealed so it cannot speak up.
20 00:02:46,83 --> 00:02:51,60 Performance is meant to support painting somehow,
21 00:02:52,23 --> 00:02:56,17 so the voice can get out. This is the idea.
22 00:03:03,31 --> 00:03:11,96 Such piece of brown furniture is absolutely open for many, different things to happen,
23 00:03:12,56 --> 00:03:18,95 because it works in many directions.
24 00:03:22,51 --> 00:03:25,80 Every time, in relation to picture next to it,
25 00:03:28,77 --> 00:03:35,71 it becomes different, because it is excluded form the frame.
26 00:03:36,34 --> 00:03:39,77 It is a picture that came out to the picture.
27 00:03:42,94 --> 00:03:48,57 I work to install this furniture-pictures.
28 00:03:49,75 --> 00:03:53,43 I call it "to furnish a gallery".
29 00:03:54,30 --> 00:03:59,32 It is a joke about installing an exhibition.
30 00:04:00,87 --> 00:04:05,59 This picture is open to happenings around it purges
31 00:04:06,76 --> 00:04:13,70 reality around it into some kind of a game.
32 00:04:15,22 --> 00:04:24,70 This is very interesting matter for me, because I can create riddles,
33 00:04:25,64 --> 00:04:37,01 so one can be mistaken if an object is a painting or not.
34 00:04:37,98 --> 00:04:50,73 Every time when I exhibit, I put all the epicures in different combination.
35 00:05:05,52 --> 00:05:16,07 This trade-mark "Furniture Factory" is a name seen in broken mirror.
36 00:05:17,15 --> 00:05:39,07 It can relate to situation of artist, art market, reception of art or critic.
37 00:05:39,74 --> 00:05:53,09 It is joyful for me that it is open for so many interpretations.
38 00:05:39,74 --> 00:05:53,09 I will never say that it relates to this or that.
39 00:06:03,87 --> 00:06:12,87 I like absurd of this idea, its artificial functionality,
40 00:06:14,76 --> 00:06:23,36 that this company is an illusion and pictures are illusions.
41 00:06:24,03 --> 00:06:27,12 For many this is not painting, for me it does not matter,
42 00:06:27,41 --> 00:06:38,38 but I think it is an interesting intersection of painting, sculpture and installation.
2 00:00:39,67 --> 00:00:43,18 I dress up as a board. I dress up as a piece of furniture.
3 00:00:43,90 --> 00:00:49,32 I have a tend to going into the furniture.
4 00:00:50,07 --> 00:00:56,19 I have done this type of actions.
5 00:00:57,02 --> 00:01:03,98 The actions rely on the immobility, the mimicry and usage of costumes,
6 00:01:05,67 --> 00:01:11,48 which are painted in different kind of timber patterns.
7 00:01:12,85 --> 00:01:20,32 I have wanted to be like an object near other objects.
8 00:01:21,56 --> 00:01:35,59 I have wanted to give some life to nearby objects/paintings.
9 00:01:36,77 --> 00:01:44,18 Still performance in a whole is a living sculpture.
10 00:01:46,40 --> 00:01:47,78 When I stand still, covered up, hidden, dressed in costume -
11 00:01:48,11 --> 00:01:51,51 I use costumes that cover my whole figure - so my face is totally covered,
12 00:01:52,75 --> 00:02:03,35 it turns me into figure, a doll.
13 00:02:04,38 --> 00:02:08,20 And when it happens next to a painting and someone unprepared enters the gallery,
14 00:02:08,87 --> 00:02:11,01 someone who does not know that performance is happening
15 00:02:12,42 --> 00:02:16,01 it is perfect situation for me because I want it to be so that
16 00:02:16,49 --> 00:02:22,48 it is unknown when the performance is happening.
17 00:02:25,66 --> 00:02:28,76 Performance is just another step.
18 00:02:29,58 --> 00:02:35,24 I had a difficult time with painting.
19 00:02:36,02 --> 00:02:45,12 I wandered that it is hermetic, sealed so it cannot speak up.
20 00:02:46,83 --> 00:02:51,60 Performance is meant to support painting somehow,
21 00:02:52,23 --> 00:02:56,17 so the voice can get out. This is the idea.
22 00:03:03,31 --> 00:03:11,96 Such piece of brown furniture is absolutely open for many, different things to happen,
23 00:03:12,56 --> 00:03:18,95 because it works in many directions.
24 00:03:22,51 --> 00:03:25,80 Every time, in relation to picture next to it,
25 00:03:28,77 --> 00:03:35,71 it becomes different, because it is excluded form the frame.
26 00:03:36,34 --> 00:03:39,77 It is a picture that came out to the picture.
27 00:03:42,94 --> 00:03:48,57 I work to install this furniture-pictures.
28 00:03:49,75 --> 00:03:53,43 I call it "to furnish a gallery".
29 00:03:54,30 --> 00:03:59,32 It is a joke about installing an exhibition.
30 00:04:00,87 --> 00:04:05,59 This picture is open to happenings around it purges
31 00:04:06,76 --> 00:04:13,70 reality around it into some kind of a game.
32 00:04:15,22 --> 00:04:24,70 This is very interesting matter for me, because I can create riddles,
33 00:04:25,64 --> 00:04:37,01 so one can be mistaken if an object is a painting or not.
34 00:04:37,98 --> 00:04:50,73 Every time when I exhibit, I put all the epicures in different combination.
35 00:05:05,52 --> 00:05:16,07 This trade-mark "Furniture Factory" is a name seen in broken mirror.
36 00:05:17,15 --> 00:05:39,07 It can relate to situation of artist, art market, reception of art or critic.
37 00:05:39,74 --> 00:05:53,09 It is joyful for me that it is open for so many interpretations.
38 00:05:39,74 --> 00:05:53,09 I will never say that it relates to this or that.
39 00:06:03,87 --> 00:06:12,87 I like absurd of this idea, its artificial functionality,
40 00:06:14,76 --> 00:06:23,36 that this company is an illusion and pictures are illusions.
41 00:06:24,03 --> 00:06:27,12 For many this is not painting, for me it does not matter,
42 00:06:27,41 --> 00:06:38,38 but I think it is an interesting intersection of painting, sculpture and installation.
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Along with almost everything that seems to be building inside this subject matter, your viewpoints are actually relatively exciting. On the other hand, I beg your pardon, because I can not subscribe to your entire idea, all be it radical none the less. It seems to everyone that your commentary are generally not totally rationalized and in simple fact you are yourself not even entirely confident of your assertion. In any event I did enjoy examining it.