Blue Fragments II

A conceptual artist, art theoretician, and educator, Jarosław Kozłowski uses words, light, sound, and objects to conceive his works spanning over various media, including installation, photography, drawing, and performance. Dealing with language and media culture, he explores signs, symbols and visual systems of power. Influenced by the ideas of Ludwig Wittgenstein on language, Kozłowski’s early works address the politics of representation and linguistics. During the 1980s, he focused on the questions of value, authenticity, and originality in art. Starting with the 1990s, the artist mostly dealt with political slogans taken from the media, national flags, and signs found in public space. In his works after the 1990s, he engaged in altering the functions of everyday items, to suggest temporary relations and interactions that shifted common understandings of them.

Jarosław Kozłowski’s "Blue Fragments II" surrounds the viewer with metronomes, wall clocks and alarm clocks meticulously aligned within geometrical shapes drawn with chalk, echoing modern humans’ greediness to slice, segment, standardise and control time. The work highlights the impossibility of a collective, abstract and seemingly infallible system actually sustaining itself in conflict with a subjective and physical perception.