Krzysztof Fijalkowski is due to give a talk in the Project Space this evening. Variously active as an artist, curator and translator, his recent activity has included catalogue publications for the V&A and Tate Liverpool and a forthcoming book on Czech Surrealist Photography. Here’s some information about the talk:
This talk will focus on his contributions to two past exhibition projects around the themes of space, psychoanalysis and surrealism: Kathleen Fox’s installation The Spaces of the Unconscious at the Freud Museum London, and Surreal House at the Barbican Gallery, both in the summer / autumn of 2010. Kathleen Fox’s work focuses on issues of memory, dream and the object, and was installed in a space that was once Sigmund Freud’s bedroom, drawing on his collection to create an environment for a dialogue between conscious and unconscious space.
The process of securing, developing and funding the project is a second set of narratives to add to the theoretical ideas underpinning the work. Surreal House, on the other hand, was a major international exhibition exploring the intersections between surrealism and architecture, an area that relates closely to Krzysztof’s own research and practice interests, and resulted in this case in a chapter for the exhibition catalogue.
