13/12/2024—31/12/2025
objects
Burrow
Tomasz Mróz
- Tomasz Mróz invites insects and field mice into his sculptures. The objects installed in the park in front of Ujazdowski Castle are meant to stay – they are to fit into the natural landscape. How? By interacting with the fauna and flora living there.
- The Insect House with Mouse-Pantry Cover, i.e. the head connected to the feet, stands on a burrow that the artist came across during his autumn reconnaissance for a suitable place. Mróz hopes that the inhabitants of this burrow will eventually come to inhabit the lower parts of the sculpture. The top could become home to insects. However, this will have to wait until spring or even early autumn.
- Mróz incorporated another object – a small Girlloyi – into a tree branch. The figure was drawn on the margins of medieval books, usually depicted as legs with a torso or just legs, with a face in place of the buttocks or back. According to Mróz, the Girlloyi from the tree next to the Castle is a child, he is sleeping and probably a bit cold.
- The artist first thought about an exhibition for animals more than a decade ago. During the pandemic, he wanted to create objects for wild boars and deer. Now, at U-Jazdowski, he is implementing a project with smaller animals in mind, but he hopes that this is only the beginning of cooperation with non-humans.
- Previously, the interiors of his sculptures were inhabited by objects, photos, or poems, which Mróz would sew them inside because he did not want to leave the sculptures to themselves. Later, he began to place mechanisms that moved his works. Sometimes he hid in them himself. Due to its plasticity, silicone skin often served as the sculptural material. The artist says that in working on a sculpture “expanded” with various elements, he is most interested in the unpredictability of the whole process. The fact that at the beginning he can never predict what will happen.
- In the U-Jazdowski park, Mróz’s sculptures will for the first time be animated by nature herself. The outcome is wholly unpredictable.
- Tomasz Mróz is a graduate of the Poznań Academy of Fine Arts, living and working in Warsaw. Co-founder of the art collective Penerstwo. Since 2015, a member of the HORSFUCKERS M.C. moped gang. Author of silicone sculptures and objects, installations, and videos. From the onset of his career, Tomasz Mróz has been developing his own, highly unique style and philosophy. Away from intellectual fashions, he constructs a grotesque world, reminiscent of fairy tales for grown-ups – sad, yet filled with black humor. The characters of his “bestiary” – deformed people, oversized animals, and mutated victims of civilization and pop culture – tell about fears, desires, seductive ideologies, and artistic myths.
