This feature of Elsner's photographs is easy to notice especially as he is an emigrant himself. Illusionist in their nature, they treat reality as a representation, with which we can interfere using various tricks and devices. For example, fiction can be put into reality by means of photography. It is enough to use the white gloves of photo-lab workers or circus tricksters. Elsner captures the moment in which the border between childish games and submitting to the grown-up social roles diffuses.
Someone becomes a criminal so that the other one can be a policeman.
He lives in Kassel and finishes art studies at Kunsthochschule. This is a catalogue of the exhibition. ICAN's mission is to be an open platform for cross-cultural exchange and collaboration in the field of contemporary art, involving artists, critics, curators and other art professionals and institutions form Central and Eastern Europe. The history of the avant-garde cinema in Poland began in 1930. Since then numerous interesting films have been made, many filmmakers have developed their uniques film styles and poetics.