ピオトル・ズビエルスキ

Piotr Zbierski

Solid Maze is a photographic meditation on memory, time, and emotion. As Zbierski notes in the insert to the Solid Maze book: time feels like a place, a house in constant renovation and expansion. The time he writes about is split, stretching in many directions at once; it has multiple dimensions and different intervals. The black line running through the room thus becomes Ariadne's thread. It sets the rhythm, breath, and pulse, connecting the visual with the invisible.

However, for the author, photography is not a tool for informing or locating. Zbierski sees the potential of photography in experience and, consequently, in its ability to realise, reveal, or mark. For him, the labyrinth in which he finds himself becomes a pendulum swinging between light and shadow, or more precisely, between presence and nothingness. We encounter these tensions as we traverse the rooms and dimensions of time in Solid Maze. There is no single narrative here. Instead, there are corridors – separate trajectories of images that enter into relationships with each other, sometimes on an aesthetic level, sometimes on an emotional level, and sometimes solely on an intuitive level.

Solid Maze does not attempt to be a pure archive or a diary, although it contains both of these orders. On the one hand, it is based on photographs collected over two decades – hundreds of negatives, contact sheets, images found after time had elapsed – all reinterpreted. On the other hand, it pulsates with an emotionality that cannot be pigeonholed. It is a very personal publication, saturated with memory, longing, and intuition.