What would happen to a film if you entered it, instead of “just” facing it? What if watching a film was an element of a larger process, one that challenges passive reception by inviting the audience to engage with the film’s editing as a tool that conditions one’s affect? These are the key questions underlying No Final Version, Rafal Morusiewicz's first solo exhibition in Austria, which presents a fragmented, fictionalized, immersive, and affective account of Polish communist film history. The exhibition’s works sample and remix footage from several films made in the 1950s-1980s, ones that were originally recognized as politically problematic and frequently banned from circulation. For Morusiewicz, born in 1979 in a small town in ultra-conservative north-east part of Poland, the films of the era constituted an ambivalent yet formative growing-up experience. This exhibition will present several works by the artist, together with an accompanying publication, designed collaboratively by the artist and the curator.

My solo exhibition, "No Final Version" (09.09.–21.10.2022), was kindly hosted and facilitated by Marilyn Volkman at ENTRE Vienna and curated by Guilherme Pereira Maggessi de Oliveira. The exhibition, as well as the publication that's part of it, are funded by BMKÖS — Bundesministerium für Kunst, Kultur, öffentlicher Dienst und Sport.