Jakub Dziewit

About artist

Born
11.12.1983
Country
Poland

Visual artist, cultural studies scholar, curator, and publisher of photography publications. President of the unContemporary Foundation, lecturer at the Faculty of Arts, Jan Długosz University.

Author of the photobooks This is not another Martin Parr exhibition and Desires of meaning, several exhibitions shown in Poland and abroad (including Film Foundry, Museum of Photography in Krakow, OBOK ZPAF Gallery, Katowice ZPAF Gallery, Rzeszów City Photography Gallery, City of Gardens Gallery, and others), as well as photographic performances and two academic monographs on the history of visual culture.

He deals with art that is thoughtfully over-intellectualized and, in contrast, painfully affective. He has explored the themes of corporeality, everyday life, the legacy of modernism, as well as cognitive mechanisms and ways of constructing meaning in images.

 

Works

Jakub Dziewit

Untitled, from the series Trident

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