"Girls and Boys I Know" (2012-2016)
This series is centered around the manifestation of youth. By staging film scenes and constructing sets, Bownik recreates the technique and conventionality of the world of 1940s cinema and evokes the feeling of American studio photography. Drawing on the classic iconography of painting - still lives, hunting still lives, portraits, as well as archival photography - he searches for common qualities or characteristic features of different representations of a given point in time and historical context.
This series is centered around the manifestation of youth. By staging film scenes and constructing sets, Bownik recreates the technique and conventionality of the world of 1940s cinema and evokes the feeling of American studio photography. Drawing on the classic iconography of painting - still lives, hunting still lives, portraits, as well as archival photography - he searches for common qualities or characteristic features of different representations of a given point in time and historical context.
Doe, 178cm x 140cm, 2013, photography
Worm, 217cm x 140cm, 2014, photography
Passage, 240cm x 140cm, 2013, photography
Grid, 112cm x 92cm, 2012, photography
Mourner, 194cm x 140cm, 2017, photography
Pilgrim, 194cm x 135cm, 2017, photography
Den, 209cm x 140cm, 2014, photography
Atmospheric Object, 210cm x 140cm, 2014, photography
Exhibition, Undercoat, Central Museum of Textiles, Lodz,, 2022
Backstage, studio, 2012