BKOZKA_two men looking to their left_2015.jpg

Remembering what never happened

Bronek Kózka

About

My most recent series 'Remembering what never happened' is set at party, sometime in the 1980's. Each seen is choreographed to give a hint of what the story might be. While the actors are real, the stage they appear on is not. The Californian modernist house was designed by architect Andrew Hayes in specific response to one of the characters - the owner of the property. The design was then 'built' in the virtual world before being photo-realistically rendered for each specific camera angle. The idea of working with this type of virtual world camera me while working on the series 'Perfect:Synthetic' in that series I photographed mannequins imbuing them with a sense of the real.

Like a painter or a writer, my work starts from a blank canvas or a blank page and proceeds from there. My approach is to construct a space, an environment, which best evokes the memory I am grasping for; a sort of half-light, somewhere between reality, dreams and memories.

I believe that through the re-examination, re-framing and re-construction of memories and remembered events we can shed light on who we are.

In constructing ‘Remembering what never happened’ I shot each actor and the scene independently and curated the images in post-production. This process allowed me to be responsive to the actors’ expressions and was intrinsic to constructing a near imperceivable disconnect between the characters.