Krzysztof Maniak Sold at Auction Prices

b. 1990 -

Krzysztof Maniak works with video, photography, and performance. Maniak portrays the melancholic landscape of the Polish hinterland by relying on small actions. In front of the camera, the artist puts on performances that simulate communication with the wilderness: he presses down grass to create paths in fields, stretches his body to measure distance between tree trunks and becomes part of the geometrical constellations created by twigs and piles of stones. What Krzysztof Maniak does is to reverse the process of colonization by blending in with the landscape.