Artur Zmijewski lives and works in Warsaw. In his art, Zmijewski explores social standards , by exposing people to invented situations and assignments, and capturing their behaviour on film. Zmijewski often implements social-political strategies in his works, in which he tries to expose deeply rooted collective traumas.
In his residencies, (He visited the Center 3 times during 2007-08), Zmijewski was involved in a number of projects. He documented protests with Israeli artist, Yael Bartana, he interviewed B’Tselem member, Diala Shamas, with Roni Lahav (published in the reader for Liminal Spaces), he filmed “Between Us” in Lod and “My Neighbours” in Holon.
For “Between Us”, Artur spent time in the city of Lod (Lydda) where a wall has been built that divides the Israeli Jewish neighbourhood from the Israeli Arabic neighbourhood. Zmijewski attempted to invite both sides together to do an exercise which inevitably fails miserably and mirrors the stereotypical and canonical arguments at play in Israeli society.
In “My Neighbours”, Zmijewski interviewed his neighbours in the residency apartment building about the recent conflict in Gaza, asking them to explain what had happened and why. Like in his work, "Them," he asks the tenants to draw a representation that manifests their feelings visually.
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