Marcin Dudek, Inspire.People.Motion, 2021, installation view, Harlan Levey Projects, Brussels, Belgium. Courtesy: the artist and Harlan Levey Projects; photograph Damon De Backer
At Harlan Levey Projects, the artist draws on his own experience as a working-class football fan during Poland’s 1990s passage from communism to capitalism.
The chaotic period that followed Poland’s transition from communism to capitalism is an important thematic backdrop to Marcin Dudek’s exhibition ‘Slash & Burn II’ at Harlan Levey Projects’s new space in the Heyvaert district of Brussels. In this powerful show – which comprises installation, drawing and performance – the Polish artist explores his own experience of coming of age in the 1990s as a working-class football fan in a country with crumbling infrastructure, dysfunctional governance and a traumatic history of being caught in the crossfire of successive European conflicts.
