Piotr Zbierski - Solid Maze Of All That’s Left Untold (signed)

André Frère Éditions 2025

Based on an intuitive, surreal narration the photographic series of Piotr Zbierski are constantly asking questions on relationships between nature and culture as well as between memory and narration. What happens between experience and the act of telling a story about it? Where does memory end and diary begins? His photography also connects the material reality with the wider spiritual understanding of the world. The works, very poetic and full of pure emotions, invite meditation by plumbing the depths of the human soul and the mysteries of life and death. Nowadays more and more I think of photography as a river, on which both banks one stays simultaneously. The stories are on the first shore – well-constructed, thoughtful, intentional narratives enclosed in the form of books, exhibitions - in layouts to be seen. The spoken anecdotes, chemistry of emotions, edition works, knowledge and feelings. But on the other bank there is a storehouse of photographic negatives and contact sheets. The whole thing together with emotional and factual memory. A solid maze of all possibilities and all that’s left untold. Here the story is open-ended, like the act of speaking, which only here has the chance to become similar to hearing. Moreover, on the second shore photography is no longer only about love and sincerity, but also about time. This natural location seems to be no longer an intentional story, but rather the possibility. And maybe the closest one I know to visit the real past events and present longings and fantasies.

Pages - 160 p. + 4 p. insert
Dimensions - 33 x 24 cm.
Cover - Paperback
Binding - Exposed Spine
Process - Offset Printed
Edition Size - 1000

Language - English, French

ISBN 9782492696183