ABOUT

ABOUT

Critially engaging static observation sites as embodied encounters, Jozef Michalski’s artistic practice operates within the conceptual architecture of accelerationist thought, engaging with the digital sublime and the entropic destabilization inherent in hypermodernity.

Works serve as meditative zones where digital landscapes decay, invoking both Deleuzian flows and the cybernetic unraveling forewarned. Michalski embodies a Promethean ethos, probing the Faustian ambitions that fuel humanity’s insatiable drive to transform and transcend natural limits, even as this pursuit accelerates the forces of entropy. By aligning with the darker undercurrents of accelerationist theory, he critiques the consequences of technological excess, exploring how innovation becomes inseparable from annihilation.

EXHIBITION

Shows:

Metamorphasis, PEP, La Nature, Ardenne, 2025.

A Letter From a Friend, Bacio, Bern. 2024/2025.

Into the Flux, IBA, London. 2024.

Exactly AI, Cafe Moskau, Berlin. 2024.

WCPF22, The Royal Arsenal, London. 2022.

A Temporary Landing, London. 2022.

Not My Beautiful House, London. 2022.

The Institute of Proposals, Online. <2022.

Grid, Platform, London. <2022.

A Particular Reality, Online. <2022.

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Awards/Nominations:

Boodle Hatfield Printmaking Prize (Nominated), 2023.

EDUCATION

 

KSA, BA Fine Art (Hons). 2019/2022.

CONTACT

EMAIL

CONTACT@JMICHALSKI.COM

PROCESS

THE ACT OF PRODUCING, THE ABILITY TO TRANSFORM ONE TO ANOTHER AND THE IDEA TO MECHANICALLY ALTER A MATERIAL TO FIT A SPECIFIC PURPOSE OR MESSAGE. PROCESS IS UNIVERSAL AND EMBODIES MANY FORMS. THIS CAN BE THROUGH THE MEANS OF MASS PRODUCTION ON A LARGER SCALE OR THE PRODUCTION OF A ONE OFF WORK. PROCESS IS IMPORT AS OUR WORLD NOW WORKS ON PROCESS, FROM OUR FOOD TO OUR ENTERTAINMENT, HUMANS PROCESS EVERYTHING. FOR EXAMPLE A TRIBE IN THE AMAZON THAT IS UNCONTACTED BY OUTSIDE CIVILIZATIONS WILL STILL ENACT PROCESS TO CREATE TOOLS, TO CREATE FIRE AND TO SURVIVE. PROCESS IS PART OF EVERYTHING THAT HAPPENS IN THE UNIVERSE AND CAN BE AS SMALL AS A CELL REPRODUCING IN A NATURAL PROCESS OR AS LARGE AS A BLOCK OF STEEL BEING MELTED IN AN INDUSTRIAL FURNACE. PROCESS IS KEY IN THE PRODUCTION OF WORK.

DEPOSITION

THE ABILITY TO TRANSFER SUBSTANCES OR MATERIALS. THE WORK ITSELF INVOLVES A GREAT DEAL OF DEPOSITION, DEPOSITING SUBSTANCES AND MINERALS ONTO A SURFACE, OBJECT, OR SOME KIND OF MEDIUM ENABLING THE SUBSTANCE OF MINERAL BEING DEPOSITED TO BE TRANSFERED. DEPOSITION USUALLY HAPPENS OVER A GREAT DEAL OF TIME IF LEFT NATURALLY, SO ARTIFICAL DEPOSITION IS THE MAIN WAY IN WHICH WORK REALISES ITSELF. AS TIME GOES ON, DEPOSITION MAY ALLOW FOR NEW POSSIBLITIES AND/OR NEW VISUAL FORMS TO BE PRODUCED OVER A MORE DURATIONAL PERIOD.

ENTROPY

ORDER INTO DISORDER. THE REMOVAL OF CONTROL DURING A PROCESS CREATES ENTROPY AND CHOAS IN A CONTAINED ENVRNOMENT. BEING ABLE TO SEQUENCE RANDOMNESS AND ENABLE IT TO TAKE HOLD CONTAINS THERAPUTIC QUALITIES. OUR BRAINS ARE HARDWIRED ON STRUCTURE AND THE ABILITY TO REMOVE THAT STUCTURE THAT DISALLOWS UNIVERSAL THOUGHT AND TRANSCENDENCE OF THE MIND IS LIMITING. THE UNIVERSE DOES NOT WORK WITH LOW ENTROPY, SO THEREFORE A MORE UNIFORM SERIES OF WHAT COULD BE DESCRIBED AS RANDOM DOTS AND FORMS IS MORE ACCESSABLE THAN A REFERENCE THAT INVOLVES A CULTURAL LINK. WE AS HUMANS HAS CREATED STRUCTURE AND SPENT THOUSAND OF YEARS CREATING CULTS AROUND THIS. FOR INSANCE RELIGION, IS JUST ONE OF MANY OF THESE CULTS, WITH IT SMANY DIFFERENT INTERSECTIONS. IN REALITY, IT IS MEANINGLESS AND WE ARE AT A CONSTANT WAR TO FIGHT AGAINST ENTROPY. THE PROPOSITION IS THAT THROUGH UNIVERSAL LANGUAGE, WE EMBRACE IT. TAKE FROM IT A PERSONAL DEEPER MEANING. NOW, THROUGH THE ADVENT OF PHOTOGRAPHY, CREATING IMAGES THAT REPRESNT OBJECTS OR ICONS HAVE LITTLE MEANING.

IN REALITY THESE IMAGES JUST FORM A SEQUENCE OF RANDOM DOTS AND POINTS MAPPING THE WORLD. TO TRANSCEND ONTO THE NEXT LEVEL WE NEED TO REALISE THAT EVERYTHING WILL END UP BEING NOTHINESS AND THAT NOTHINGNESS IS EVERYTHING AND THAT BY DEFYING ENTROPY RATHER THAN EMBRACING ENTROPY, WE ARE IN EFFECT, DEFYING THE FUNDAMENTS OF THE UNIVERSE FOR ILLOGICAL REASONING THAT IS CENTRED AROUND THE HUMAN. TO DEFY THIS WE MUST DESTROY THIS MENTALITY AND REPLACE IT WITH ONE THAT IS TRANSCENDED.