The gallery closes its 2026 program with Crazy shit. Everything is cool., a solo exhibition by Bogdan Perzyński: more than fifty drawings, Darkly #1, Darkly #2, and onward, of drones, rockets, and a satellite from the wars in Ukraine, Russia, and the Middle East, and a video animation that shares the exhibition’s title.
Perzyński has flown drones since 2015, first as a camera, then as an instrument for performing in public space. Now the same machines are flown by others, over other places, with other intentions. After decades of working with video, code, and computer vision, he answers them with the oldest tool he has: a pencil. A drone is built for speed and distance. A drawing takes as long as it takes.
Each drawing is stamped FLUXUS: Concerned With Insignificances, a nod to the Fluxus restagings Perzyński took part in as a young artist in Poland.
Then the drawings move. Through a computational process, Perzyński turns one of his hand-drawn drones into a back-projected video animation, where it flies again and again, not by his hand but by the same kind of technology it depicts. This passage from one medium into another, from pencil to code, has long been at the center of his practice. It is as much a Fluxus gesture as the stamp.
The title is the voice of someone getting through the day while the news says otherwise.
Perzyński’s work in video, installations, interactive code, computer vision, performance, and social intervention has been presented throughout Europe, Asia, and the Americas. He studied law at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań and earned his graduate degree in Painting and Drawing at the University of Fine Arts in Poznań. His work is in the collections of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; the Library of Congress; the Praxis Collection, Vancouver; the Santa Barbara Museum of Art; Muzeum Narodowe w Poznaniu; and the de Saisset Museum, Santa Clara.
