The Plural Vision.
Krzysztof Pruszkowski tells us about the saturation of pictures in the modern world and the short-sightedness they create. A world where pictures are at the same time over-represented and fleeting, very talkative and restrained. Pictures always competing with each other, ending up stacked upon each other and finally dissapearing in the daily stream of information issued by the media.
By subjecting his photographic topics, wether they are taken from the media or not, to "multiple superimpositions", Krzysztof Pruszkowski demonstrates the limits of the new reality. A reality which disolves the notion of time picture by picture and, in a way, accounts for the speed which characterizes some videoclips, the instant circulation of information and pictures around the world. We are no more in the order of the snapshot.
His process: to subject the picture to up to sixty or seventy superimpositions. He names it "photosynthesis" - the gathering of information which could not be covered in one shot. The process is often limited to six or seven superimpositions. The picture doubles, triples, reaches the edge of fuzziness, and provokes a conflict between global and individual, between singular and plural.
Therefore, when Krzysztof Pruszkowski addresses one of todays most difficult artistic concepts, which is the portrait, he does not provide a cohesive picture of the model, but rather the search and formulation of an individuality composed by superimposing different faces. For example Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir (1984), or sometimes more generic, as if he was slowly building up a photofit (portrait-robot), like "Miss Europe" or as with "The President"(1984), with the merged portraits of six American presidents.
This is in fact the new representation of the individual within the present social code, commonly named the typical profile for job selection (profil-type des offres d'emploi). The notion of individual has gone from specific to generic, from unique to interchangeable, like the objects which have changed from original to reproduction. A plural vision of a world where "production" is a key word.........
60 passagers de 2e classe du metro. Ligne: Clignancourt-Orleans. Paris Krzysztof Pruszkowski
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