Projection mapping and custom media tactics for Tomasz Domański's Middle Age exhibition.

Middle age. Middle-age crisis. It’s like a teacher suddenly made me answer a lot of hard questions in front of the whole class, and I’m not prepared, but I don’t have any excuses – I knew I’d be called on to answer. So what’s the score, at this (optimistically speaking!) halfway point? How much have I let slide – how many projects have I neglected, how many where the bar was set too high? You could point out that I’ve fulfilled the old proverb: I’ve built house, planted a tree and I have a beautiful son … but I still feel uneasy.

I don’t have the sense of certainty goes along with self-satisfaction. The only thing I know for sure is that it’s important to fight against routine, because it’s routine that destroys our curiosity – our sense of mystery, of some kind of surprise that’s worth taking a chance for. And the older a person gets, the harder it is to take chances. That’s why I treat middle age as a choice. It’s only now that I’m getting a sense of what risk is – an attractive uncertainty.

Tomasz Domański

Some of the works being shown in frames of the Middle Age exhibition at the WRO Art Center are Tomasz Domański’s most recent installations, accomplished by specially created software components and custom media tactics by Paweł Janicki.

Created especially for the exhibition mixed-media installation Self-portraid with Max (joining physical object - a sculpture - and video mapping) based on special projection system by Paweł Janicki was commissioned by Dolnośląskie Towarzystwo Zachęty Sztuk Pięknych.