Hope Amid Madness:
Kryzstof Krol and “The Windows of Wolinska Street”
by DavID Bottoms
July 27 - August 19, 2017
coolspace @ artspace
For his solo show, Bottoms will exhibit a visual representation of his short story with images as a backdrop to lend atmosphere as well as furniture and an old tube radio reflective of the WWII Polish Resistance era which makes up the plot of his story.
STATEMENT FROM THE ARTIST
Fiction is an exhilarating pursuit, one with no limits or constraints. It offers the freedom to seek out and preserve that which is mistakenly seen as mundane, workaday, worthless. It champions, through sheer documentary force, people and worlds that would otherwise be lost: shouldered aside by a crowing, jostling world or worse—left to shrink, fade, yellow and crumble. It elevates lives and thus life.
It eschews, when required, flash and bombast in favor of brief glimmers of revelation…of hard-won wisdom, camaraderie, shared struggle and even tantalizing scraps of truth. How audacious, how delicious, this meditation upon the language and its possibilities!
Ultimately, writing affords one an immortality of sorts. If the writer is able to organize and set down thoughts that may be read long after their physical passing, they have achieved some small portion of renown, a mark upon humanity’s stone, and certainly a chance to share with, confide in, perhaps even offer a bit of inspiration to a restless lover of words and ideas yet unborn. Stories—old as the sky, old as us—fuel a special torch, and it shines brightly indeed.
This sharing is all that a writer can hope for, and it is at once a humble pursuit and a fantastic, florid gift, endlessly opened in delight.
