Dominik Lejman
Air-Conditioned Room (Breathe Deep)
Air-Conditioned Room (Breathe Deep) is one of Lejman’s first works to combine painting with video. A video is subtly projected onto a monochromatic, abstractly painted canvas, introducing the dimension of time and adding slight movement to the painting. The image recorded on the video shows the dead body of a naked man lying on a pedestal resembling a catafalque. The figure’s position evokes associations with The Dead Christ by the Italian painter Andrea Mantegna. The materiality of the paint and the ephemerality of the video image are equal layers of the work, together building deeper meanings.
Dominik Lejman
(b. 1969) a visual artist and educator, who combines painting with video projections, creates video murals and large-scale projection works. A graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts in Gdańsk and the Royal College of Art in London. Since 2005, he has run the 2nd Painting Studio at the University of Arts in Poznań. He is a winner of the Polityka Passport award (2001) and the Berlin Art Prize (2018).