CEZARY RUCKI

/ Besetment (Elegy to the Black Matter)

London, 2024

It can happen everywhere. Now, no matter how hard you try to hide between the people, behind your friends. No matter how blue is the sky. It will find you, catch your throat.

Sometimes you can feel it coming like a dark cloud taking over the sun. It spreads quickly, leaving you no space, no time, no light. Now, you’re alone. Hearing only your heartbeat and short breaths. You can feel your bones are crushing, you’re suffocating. You want to run away but you know you can’t.

You just have to let it be and hope it will end.
Just try to catch your breath.

„Besetment” contains 5 self-portraits that have been taken during the panic attack, in a studio. The body was distorted in post-production process. Then, they were printed and partly covered with black paint, with several, thin layers.

13x19cm, 5 pieces, acrylic on inkjet print.

Cezary Rucki

Warsaw/London