Piotr Pietrus – Cicha Woda

Cicha Woda is a photo series that is guided by a search for ephemeral ashes in our fast-paced life. I am collecting images, which once combined, create their own narrative; a visual atlas of some sort of magic that is quietly moving just below the surface

The title translates from Polish to ‘Quiet Water’, which is a saying that refers to the fact that silent, seemingly trivial things can have a large impact or effect. Visually it can also refer to various states of owing: from shower gel in hands, to streams of unconsciousness that are barely audible through all the white noise of our busy lifestyles.

In a certain way I want to digest or detox myself from all the superficial junk we’re constantly bombarded with by a consumerist culture: all these fake promises of perfect worlds you can be a part of if you pay the necessary amount. Chica Woda is what happens when I distance myself from all of this.

Piotr Pietrus is a Polish born artist and photographer. He graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich, Germany in 2008, and went on to do a masterclass with Arno Fischer at the Ostkreuzschule in Berlin, where he now lives and works. Posessing a strong contemporary documentary practice, his work (among others) investigates the sites where the poetic and political intersect in the wake of a growing resistance towards social injustice and the ecological crises. His work has been published widely including Greenpeace Magazin, Monopol, Süddeutche Zeitung Magazin, Der Greif, VICE, If You Leave, Phases and Aint Bad Magazine among others. Recently he exhibited with EEP Berlin, a new curatorial initiative dedicated to showcasing the strongest Eastern European photography to Berlin audiences.