CEZARY RUCKI

/ Ardousness (Elegy to the Black Matter)

London, 2024

It’s not about being happy, it’s about learning how to stand again when you’re swept away”

15 years. You felt down. Manage to crawl back to life. First time you thought you wouldn’t make it. Then you fell again. You stood up again. Then fell again. And again. Again.

But, after all, you’re still standing. Only your body remembers the pain.

„Ardousness” is a sculpture-like, photographic installation, containing 15 acrylic plates placed on a mirror base. The process was based on the cycle of falling on the ground and trying to stand on my feet again, as much as I could - with the camera placed on the stand with 3 second timer.

13x19x25cm, UV print on acrylic plates

Cezary Rucki

Warsaw/London