Spectrums. Vanishing

After five years, Tadeusz Kantor’s permanent exhibition at Cricoteka is coming to an end. During the Copernicus Festival we will bring it to its finissage, reworking the key meanings at the end.

The leading theme of the exhibition “Tadeusz Kantor. Spectres. Correction” is the memory of the difficult past, both historically and personally – an idea clearly present in the work of this visionary of theater.
Historical and biographical motifs are strongly individualized in Kantor’s work, functioning as clichés of memory. The dialogue with difficult memory’s entanglements of form and different canons of aesthetics is also reflected in the shape of the exhibition. It builds up tensions through a “density of matter,” a reference to the landscape of ruins, a landscape close to catastrophe.
With this year’s Copernicus Festival, we will change the trajectory of the objects in the exhibition for the last time, building a new dynamic between them.

From May 20 to 22 at noon, the objects will be compacted, crammed into new spatial arenas to make way for the energy of a performative dance show that will conclude the exhibition.

On May 25 at 4 p.m. Piotr Mateusz Wach – performer, dance and body theater artist – will perform in the exhibition space a piece based on intensified physical actions exploring issues of movement. In his work, the artist will refer to themes of premonition of dying, impending disaster, elevating death to the status of an artistic gesture, broadly inspired by the performances of Kantor’s Theater of Death.