Marek Wasilewski

Marek Wasilewski
is a graduate of Academy of Fine Arts in Poznan, Poland, and Central Saint Martins College of Art & Design in London. He has been awarded the British Council, Fulbright and Kosciuszko Foundation scholarships. he works on the field of video art, photography and installation. He exhibited his works in places such as the Artist House in Tel Aviv, Whitebox Gallery in New York, CAFA Museum in Bejing, Golden Thread Gallery in Belfast and many others.

Participant in
The Wake Up! Memorial – Gandhi PPNRCD
Giorgio Agamben:Clarifications, 2020, 6:15 min.
„Fear is a poor advisor, but it causes many things to appear that one pretended not to see“. – writes Giorgio Agamben in his short essay “Clarifications” that responds to the controversies around his opinions about social consequences of coronavirus in Italy. This video work quotes some sentences from this essay combined with images from China, Russia, Poland, Germany and other countries depicting how the state controls social unrest and protests arising with the spread of pandemia. Italian philosopher warns us of the political and ethical consequences of the epidemic.