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MON MOI

25.09—20.10.2024

artist: Alek Slon

curator: Roberto Andrade


 

The title of the exhibition, drawn from the prose of Marcel Proust, can be understood as a question: who am I to myself? With what, that is within me, can I truly identify? The motto of the project is a fragment from the novel "In Search of Lost Time," where the protagonist, awakened from a deep sleep, attempts to reconstruct his identity through the places he is familiar with—those he once lived in and which shaped him:

“...the memory—not yet of the places I have been, but of a few places I once inhabited and where I could be—descended upon me like help from above, to extract me from the nothingness from which I would not have been able to escape by myself; in one second I traversed ages of civilization, before the vaguely matured image of the oil lamp, and then the shirt with a turned-down collar slowly revealed to me the true features of my self.” (translated by Julian Rogoziński)

Alek Slon creates images of places—views, as he calls them. They are fragments of cities, scraps of space, situations—phantoms of imagination that have become elements of an inner landscape or personal mythology. These are images of the world captured by memory, which we carry within us and define our trajectory.

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