In the Dust… Part Two

Time for the next artistic intervension directed toward the museum from the “In the Dust…”.

The artist invited to interaction with art hidden in National Museum in Kraków is Paweł Kruk.

With his simple gesture of placing gift candles in the space of the Main Building, Paweł Kruk creates a lot of potential situations. He allows the visitors to take fragments of the installation out of the museum, to light them up at home or somewhere else. Through offering a gift which can be taken out, the artist reverses the traditional economy of the institution, under which in a gallery you can only be an observer. With his actions Paweł Kruk reveals a figure of a silent flame, of open fire which has no right to appear in a museum. And so placing unlighted candles in the gallery expresses a sense of agency arrested at a halfway stage, an action which anyone else can complete. So the artist invites us to change the “grammar “of an institution which was/is ascribed the role of collecting and preserving, never giving away or losing.

At the opening Paweł Kruk will read excerpts from “The Life of the Bee” by Maurice Maeterlinck.