The Format - Contemporary Culture Gallery is pleased to present "Transference", a first solo show in Italy, Milan, of Michal Bugalski, curated by Guido Cabib.

Michal Bugalski presents for the first time in Italy his exhibition, with works of different sizes, some of which are novel, and a video specially produced for The Format space.

In the unforgettable Blade Runner by Ridley Scott, surrogates led in the pocket false family pictures to recreate the illusion of memories to remain firm in the past. We know that past was fault as well as their life artificial, but in the brain circuits of those robots formed a ploy to convince themselves. The memory provided their identity and the identity made ​​them real. The memory, much more than aesthetics, was the leitmotif of the history of photography as we know it. The recognition or identification (by themselves) is the result of a complex and continuous path of knowledge that takes place within the memory and the unconscious enabling man to find, especially by remembering, parts of himself that confirm his identity and identification with himself.

Michal Bugalski through photography, is constantly looking for his memory, finally to appropriate it and share it with others. Pictures are the tool he uses to bring to the surface those memories that only with maturity, manifest themselves in humans, that during childhood and adolescence, mystifies or better shelves. Lose memory or not cultivate it, is like to lose themselves, but also prevent from knowing others, because the curiosity about who is in front of us is always attention to their past. It is not enough remember sometimes and casually. The reconstruction of lost images, passages and events of our lives requires an inner involvement in pedagogical education. It is necessary to cultivate more and better what you are able to do and be. Michał Bugalski collects through his shots the need to find space and time for the own narrative and the others.

Inside Michal memory, we find light, colours, bodies shapes, different types of sounds that have walked through the ears, eyes, the smells and the flavours burst through the nostrils and the mouth, the hard, the heat, the cold, the heavy and the lightweight we have experienced through sensitivity.

Is stored in the memory all the activity of our minds, that transforms what senses perceive. In it we also find ourselves, what we did and how we felt. When we are in the memory we can recall the images we want, as we prefer. Things do not really come into memory, but are transformed into images, captured with extraordinary speed of our perception, and stowed in a sort of wonderful compartments from which the memory admirably pulls out. The memory is the reappearance of what we already knew because the instruments of recognising are inside ourselves and are exercised when we require. So God reveals himself in the memory, but to find it you have to go beyond the memory. We are in the memory of Michal Bugalski and retrace our own.

"You can just feel the details, the bits and pieces you never bothered to put into words. And you can feel these extreme moments even if you don't want to. You put these together and you get the feel of a person. Enough to know how much you miss them, and how much you hate the person who took them away". (Leonard Shelby in Memento, by Christopher Nolan)

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