ARTIST STATEMENT

For Delman (born 1989, Poland), media and mass communication have created a generational rupture, with the concept of failing that leads people to desperate attempts at transforming themselves. This balance between winning and losing has led to his preoccupation with games, war, rivalries and rejection. Delman utilises information in his work in various ways: as a signal, an alarm, or a message. Conflict enters his exploration of communication due to the impossibility of establishing it because of differences of perception, which are often a result of a small, local culture’s life experiences. ‘I work using multiple medias (video, sculpture, found objects, installations, performances). I mainly make actions or interventions in result of which sculptures/objects are left. This indecisiveness is only feigned, however, because the overriding value of my work is an attempt to illustrate the anxieties and tensions which I experience, and which are experienced by my peers. The variety of projects merges the desire to organize experiences and relates them to a wider group, inscribes a wider problem. My works are inspired by such notions as ambition, fear, instinct, rivalry. I feel the impossibility of establishing communication resulting from differences of perception, which is often a result of a small, local culture’s life experiences. I am trying to relate to simple and clean gestures, such as breathing, scratching, touching, because they are fundamentally the same for everyone, thus attempting to create communications between the viewer and the work, overarching any divisions. My projects are often based on the idea of games, which are connected with rivalry and domination. The first assumes the exhibition is an attempt to look critically at today’s young people, manipulated by the quantity and quality of information . It is an attempt to address the transinformation, the anonymity of the web and loss of intellectual property in times of Post_net. I want to build video and sound objects and installations connected to the idea of post net translocation of information. Those pieces will be often based on web or body activates. From my perspective, I work with the idea of body condition.

BIOGRAPHY

Competitions

Ministry of Culture grant for artist 2016
final – Gray house, special distinction for best work 2015
final – ERGO HESTIA 2014
final – BMW/ART/TRANSFORMY 2012
final – Creative Valley 2010

 Publication

2015 – Notes na 6 tygodni nr 99, maj-czerwiec-2015, Alek Hudzik, str. 110-117, issn 1730-9409

2015 – Wczasy Mag No. 3, “Wokół typografi” str 18-19, issn 2353-6004

2015 – Art&Business 4.2015, “Nowe Rytuały”, Alek Hudzik, str. 32,

2014 – Warsawholic ISSUE #4 PL/ENG, str. 100-103

2014 – Catalog of 13 edition ERGO HESTIA

2013 – “PDP Orkiestra”, catalog and dvd with concert, texts Fernando Garcia Mendez, Maria Anna Potocka, Katarzyna Wąs

2013 – “Punkt” magazin

2012 – “Aaakupunktura” catalog, texts by Mirosław Bałka and Anna Miczko Published by Kordegarda, 2012

2012 – “Zawód Artysta” Gallery Raster, texts by Marta Czyż, Łukasz Gorczyca, Michał Kaczyński