Stones, triptych, 2012

The presented work is one of Witek Orski’s most famous photographs. The photographs are a result of a process in which sixteen takes of a single stone were combined in such a way that it became impossible to determine the scale and depth of the stone. Orski studies the relation between the eye, the camera, and the surface of a painting. He directs viewers’ attention to the photograph itself, contrary to the usual treatment of a photograph as a transparent medium. Additionally, he disturbs the perception of the presented object by playing with the properties of matter: the photographed stones are covered with a layer of oil and are reminiscent of soft, moist pieces of meat. Orski has presented his works at individual exhibitions, 'Wulgarne' (English: 'Vulgar') and 'Cwiecenie' [an untranslatable pun on two words, ‘cwiczenie’, i.e. ‘exercise’, and ‘swiecenie’, i.e. ‘emitting light’] in the Czulosc gallery in Warsaw, and at group exhibitions in Tokyo, Paris, Berlin, Budapest, Bratislava, and Poland (for example, in Ujazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Art, Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, and the Zacheta National Gallery of Art in Warsaw). He is a doctoral student in the Institute of Philosophy of the University of Warsaw and of the Faculty of Multimedia Communication of University of the Arts Poznan. He lives and works in Warsaw.

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