Art Trafostation, 4 Świętego Ducha Street, Szczecin

Tomasz Lazar 生死 - し ょ う し
Curator: Stanisław Ruksza
Exhibition: 22nd February - 30th March, 2018
Vernissage: 22na February, 2018 (Thursday) 07.00 pm

The exhibition 生死 - し ょ う し is the premiere gallery show of two cycles of the artist's photographs: The Suicide Forest and Tokyo's Nightlife. The Japanese title refers to the cycle of constant wandering, the circle of birth and death. Both projects at the exhibition will take the shape of photographic installations. The works show the repressed night side of the metropolis's life.

Tokyo's nightlife is exploration of the second, non-obvious side of the city, BSDM clubs, nightclubs, a technocratic world that relieves stress. As the artist says: "The life of Tokyo residents during the day is subject to specific rules: we get up, go to work, we work for 150% of our opportunities for a very long time.

The suicide forest consists of works done at 100 km from Tokyo, at the foot of Mount Fuji, the forest of Aokigahara, also called Jukai, meaning the Sea of ​​Trees. Several hundred people have lost their lives in it; no accurate statistics are currently being deliberately carried out. In the artist's works there is a shocking aura of the sadness of this place, but also the untold "absorption" of nature.

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