"Art/Market" is a solo exhibition by artist Wojciech Gilewicz living and working between Warsaw, Poland and New York, the U.S. The expansive, multilayered film narrative on life’s precarity and its margins, labor and work of an artist juxtaposes images of exotic settings and globalized gentrification processes to address issues of (cultural) otherness, in-betweenness and non-belonging. A dozen video works make up the comprehensive presentation, encompassing ten years' worth of personal search, research, and filming in Asia between 2008 and 2018 in South Korea, China, Vietnam, Japan,and Taiwan. 

Gilewicz's films of performative and painting interventions in urban space and, less often, in nature, as argues Magda Kardasz, curator of Zacheta National Gallery of Art in Warsaw, are not so much documentations of artistic actions as autonomous impressions, paradoxically, of a very well-thought-out structure and composition. Gilewicz films them himself using a tripod-mounted camera: a part of his performances which is a near-guerrilla-like action, sucking in the many unpredictable events street life offers. So obtained footage is then edited.

The films “reality-trap” viewers’perception, testing their ongoing interpretation of subsequent scenes, where elements of artistic intervention merge with harsh realities of the landscape,the artist’s actions with people’s day-to-dayness. Gilewicz’s work investigates labor, in particular, the grounding ingredient of human existence, as well as life of social outcasts and their survival techniques. The focus on social issues has been a recurrent theme of his entire oeuvre.