Intermedia installations by three Polish artists, performers and composers (Janicki, Robakowski and Kapuściński) are on display at the Dilston Grove Gallery in south London.
The show in Southwark SE 16 takes its name from Jarosław Kapuściński’s work Where’s Chopin which explores the relationship between the facial expressions of people listening to Chopin’s Preludes Op. 28 and the artist’s interpretation of the same music.
To carry out the project, Kapuściński travelled to 12 cities around the world where Chopin never set foot but where his music has a meaningful cultural presence – Tokyo, San Francisco, Wellington, Sydney, Seoul, Beijing, Istanbul, Jerusalem, Helsinki, Buenos Aires, Santiago and Mexico City. In each of them he performed the preludes and the reactions and emotions appearing on people’s faces were filmed.
The work was presented during last week’s Warsaw Autumn Festival of Contemporary Music. (mk)