solo exhibition by Rafał Morusiewicz, curated by Guilherme Maggessi
10 September - 21 October 2022

THE EXHIBITION
What would happen to a film if you entered it, instead of “just” facing it? What if watching a film was an element of a larger process, one that challenges passive reception by inviting the audience to engage with the film’s editing as a tool that conditions one’s affect? These are the key questions underlying No Final Version, Rafal Morusiewicz’s first solo exhibition in Austria, which presents a fragmented, fictionalized, immersive, and affective account of Polish communist film history. The exhibition’s works sample and remix footage from several films made in the 1950s-1980s, ones that were originally recognized as politically problematic and frequently banned from circulation. For Morusiewicz, born in 1979 in a small town in ultra-conservative north-east part of Poland, the films of the era constituted an ambivalent yet formative growing-up experience. This exhibition will present several works by the artist, together with an accompanying publication, designed collaboratively by the artist and the curator.