restraint, 2016
Three-channel video installation, HD,
1:00 min, dimensions variable, no sound, looped
All work and photographs © Grzegorz Stefanski
Grzegorz Stefanski
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About the work
Two men in nazi uniforms present to the camera how to incapacitate civilian with bare hands. Calm anticipation followed by position-taking, then few efficient gestures and pause at the end of the sequence. Re-enacted choreography of struggling bodies balances between theatre and documentary (participants are members of historical reconstruction groups) emphasising the role of the body as the vessel for both the good clean fun and catalyst of involuntary violence.
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