Beyond the Past and the Present; Jarosław
Exhibition at the Market Square in Jarosław, within the arcades of the townhouse at 14 Rynek Street. The series of large-format collages was created using archival Jarosław postcards from the early 20th century. Silhouettes of former residents of the town were juxtaposed with characters from films shot in Jarosław (Eter, Wojna i miłość, Katyń), as well as with the figure of Sam Spiegel, who was born in Jarosław.
The collages operate through offset layers of red and blue, creating a temporal overlay in which past and present merge within a single figure. Historical silhouettes “enter” the bodies of film characters, while cinematic figures seem to emerge from the town’s archive. The exhibition highlights the continuity of local memory and the historical potential of Jarosław.
During the festival, a commemorative plaque dedicated to Krzysztof Zanussi was unveiled on the same building where the collages were installed, in recognition of his artistic achievements and the filming of Eter in this location.
The exhibition functioned as a contextual dialogue with architecture and film history. It combined archival, cinematic, and urban layers, constructing a visual narrative about the identity of place — between document and staging, memory and image.
Work commissioned by Podkarpacki Szlak Filmowy