Ihar Hancharuk / Solidarity Art Residence
I am a documentary photographer and visual artist, I work with photography, video and modern digital archives. I am a philologist and polyglot by education.
I focus on projects related to national and private identity, collective memory, global contemporaneity and the impact of the media on the world.
After the events in Belarus in 2020, I am working on a group of projects on propaganda and violence in Belarus from a historical perspective.
INSTAGRAM
Distant Place
Distant Place (2012) is a project by Sputnik Photos about the Vistula river in Warsaw. The Vistula in Warsaw is more strange than beautiful. A forest grows along its banks, in the center of the city, which is separated from the river by a highway. River traffic has been extinct for over twenty years. Next to the city, the Vistula is something of a reserve, an unpenetrated enclave. It is incredible how distant a place it is, even though it is in the center of the city. On the one hand, people are always trying to get here, but keep having to find the way. A magical place and asylum for some, to others it is a gutter, a dump, a realm of rejected people and discarded objects.
The effect of the project is an exhibition at the Copernicus Science Centre, made up of 20 large-format prints, as well as a book - a unique publication comprising 5 separate booklets contained in a single box. You can read more about the project here:
http://www.512.kopernik.org.pl/en_index.html
Photographers: Jan Brykczyński, Michał Łuczak, Rafał Milach, Adam Pańczuk and Agnieszka Rayss
Project curator: Barbara Stauss
Book design: Ania Nalecka / Tapir Book Design
Coordinator: Marzena Michałek
Client: Centrum Nauki Kopernik.
