Edel Assanti is pleased to present PAWILON by Marcin Dudek, the artist's seventh exhibition with the gallery. Coming of age during the dissolution of the Eastern Bloc, Dudek’s practice engages with the strategies of improvisation and imagination that emerged from an environment defined by instability and precarity. The exhibition focuses on the titular ‘pawilon’, a local supermarket in the Kraków council estate where the artist grew up.
In Dudek’s work, memory serves as both inspiration and medium. His installations frequently take the form of ‘memory boxes’ – sculptural environments archiving lost spaces specific to his own experiences. Within these arenas, complex dynamics are allowed to play out, enriched by the inconsistencies, errancies and disjunctions that characterise our relationship to definitive and traumatic episodes. To create these installations, Dudek strips architecture back to its barest structures, employing repurposed objects with symbolic weight in skeletal frameworks; at once familiar and eerily uncanny.