Wielopole, Wielopole Tadeusza Kantora — między medium pamięci a medium fotografii
Tadeusz Kantor’s Wielopole, Wielopole — between the medium of memory and the medium of photography

Summary/Abstract: This paper aims to show that, by attempting in his play Wielopole, Wielopole to reconstruct images of his family home and home town recorded in his memory, Tadeusz Kantor in fact poses an extraordinarily universal problem that is independent of culture and latitude: that of the impossibility of revisiting the past. By referring to the medium of memory and the medium of photography, Kantor perseveres in reconstructing images of the past, but at the same time expresses an awareness of the fact that a lost childhood cannot be repeated. The snapshots of memories, continually adjusted and corrected in the spectacle, acquire a physical dimension and become a space for the author’s endeavours that can be construed almost literally. The images retrieved from them create a presence of the author’s photographic vision.

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