The project "Picture Under Surveillance" takes a look at the historical settings in Poland of the 70's and 80's: a period in which transferring information through channels other than those of the regime – was extremely difficulty.  Obtaining recording equipment for personal usage was close to impossible. In this project, art films, personal materials, documentary films and films made by the Polish secret service will be displayed- examining the period. This rare compilation is divided into two parts: the first one focuses on the instrument – the camera, and the other focuses on the machine – the television set.

The show portrays different ways of taking over the image and the information: interrupting the formal channels of information, reconfiguring objects or excluding them all together, changing the something meaning by "adjusting" the photographed environment, voyeurism,  and limiting the technical diversity of the instrument. Some of the materials will be on public display for the first time.

Production of the project: the Jagiellonian University in Poland and The Royal Academy of Arts in Britain.

Curators: Alexandra Jach, Agnieszka Kilian, Karolina Harazim, Anna Borejczuk

Organizers of the exhibition in Israel: Mamuta at the Daniela Passal art and media center, Ein kerem, Jerusalem

Opening night: January 20 at 19:00 will also include a lecture by the curators Alexandra Yach and Agnieszka Kilian about the project and works by the artist Teresa Tyszkiewicz.

The exhibit will be open until the 19th of February

For more information: www.mamuta.org

Lecture

 January 21 at 14:00 –curatorship studies in Poland. Lecturer: Agnieszka Kilian

The Center for Contemporary Art, no. 5 Kalisher St., Tel-Aviv, 03-5106111

For more information: www.cca.org.il