2008, ORGANIC LIFE, Zachęta – National Gallery of Art, Warsaw

BERGAMOT GROUP

ORGANIC LIFE

Video performance
2008
Zachęta – National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, Poland

15`36``

The work operates at the intersection of performativity and the aesthetics of awkwardness, where vulnerability becomes not a theme but a method. It investigates the limits of bodily autonomy and the role of the viewer within a space of exposure.

The camera is unstable, as if guided by a hesitant, accidental gaze. One might speak here of a fragile gaze (Didi-Huberman): a camera that does not capture but falters—less showing than doubting. The viewer is drawn into this space of uncertainty, not as a detached observer but as a potential participant, without the safety of distance or neutrality.