Depth of Field is a site-specific installation – a spatial manifestation of Jerzy Sadowski’s photographic memory. Making use of the monumental space of the former Imperial Castle, the artist poses deeply personal, autobiographical questions: How deeply are memories encoded and consolidated over time? How fragmentary is their record? When do we assign them new meanings in an effort to preserve them positively, manipulating their original significance? And when do they fade to the point of being lost forever?

Sadowski conducts a visual monologue, juxtaposing the photographic techniques he employs as carriers of memory. He tells micro-histories, sharing several decades of his own life and artistic practice. In doing so, he constructs a private engram – a lasting and unique memory trace. Slides, negatives, and digital black-and-white photomontages simultaneously evoke specific events, objects, and emotions from the artist’s life while also symbolizing the distortions of memory experienced by all of us.

Jerzy Sadowski – photographer and visual artist, born in Białystok, Poland. He graduated from the Fine Arts High School in Supraśl and from the State Higher School of Fine Arts in Poznań (now the Magdalena Abakanowicz University of the Arts Poznań). In his artistic practice, Sadowski combines a fascination with the classical medium and themes of photography with a desire to experiment and individualize his means of expression. The result of these explorations is a body of work that pioneeringly employs diverse artistic techniques, including analog photomontage, painterly gestures, new media, digital software, and environmental practices.

A characteristic feature of the artist’s work is his “infinite cycles” – sequences of works exploring a particular theme, such as portraiture, developed over many years using his own techniques. Examples include Columns, photographic-sculptural objects constructed since 1993 from negatives and slides, and To the Image (Na obraz), a portrait series initiated in 2018 that harnesses the unpredictability of the analog photographic process. Since 2016, Sadowski has been co-founder and artistic director of TUU Magazine, a socio-cultural publication and online magazine.

His works have been presented in numerous solo and group exhibitions, including: New Generation of Polish Photography (BWA Gorzów Wielkopolski, 1991); Album (Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, 1992); Shapes of Photography (Foto-Medium-Art, Wrocław, 1993); Ideas Beyond Ideology: A New Generation in Polish Art (Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, 1993); Trace of Me (Month of Photography, Bratislava, 1994); Constellations (FF Gallery, Łódź and Munich, 1994); Circle of Photography (BWA Poznań, 1995); Excess Baggage (Brodziak Gallery, Poznań, 2020); Color Test (Print Studio, Warsaw, 2021); Concert in the Garden (Poznań Art Week, 2022); To the Image (RTTCL, Poznań, 2023); In Between (Stary Browar, Poznań Design Festival, 2023); Selected Objects I (Ludwik Zamenhof Centre, Białystok, 2024); and Introspection (Arsenał Municipal Gallery, Poznań, 2024).

Przemysław Jędrowski – art historian and art critic. He has curated dozens of exhibitions and contemporary art projects, including the podcast series, events, and exhibition Lumberjack: Stories of Masculinity at CK ZAMEK in Poznań (2025). He is the author of numerous texts on art and popular culture, including the essay collection Wilga Wilda, presented during Poznań Art Week 2024. He is a member of AICA Poland and the Association of Art Historians.

Jędrowski develops socio-artistic projects in both institutional and alternative spaces, combining reflection on visual culture with a critical approach to official narratives. His curatorial concepts explore the idea of “dark ecology” as well as theories drawn from cultural anthropology and cosmology.