Antenna - 2018
I started being careful around all the new technologies that surround us. They appear to the people as an all-knowing being that will connect everybody together and spread knowledge across our planet. These objects gained an incredible presence, but we are considering these new technologies as an all-knowing spirit that accompany our lives and examines our choices constantly. These technologies are active absolutely everywhere: in our homes our pockets, and the invisible wave they produce entirely occupy our environnement, and in this work, I’m trying to represent what the waves they produce, look like. My generation and the next ones have become the community that forms this « grand unity », we are somehow this all-knowing spirit, this moving and connected collectivity, we know everything about everybody and we can get informed on all things at all times.
The danger of this over-technophilia is to give these technologies a positon of almost-religion. And this is exactly what we’ve done. The Christians have the cross to represent their religion and we have the antennas.
Exhibition Chateau de Nyon - ”Dispute”, exhibition of the art collection of the City of Nyon - Nyon, Switzerland, Antenna, February 2024
Shortlist VFG Nachwuchsförderpreis 2021 - Antenna, Switzerland, June 2021
Exhibition KlanGalerie with PEP - Photographic Exploration Project, Connections - Berlin, Germany - Antenna, April 2021
Exhibition MBAL - Museum of Fine Arts - Le Printemps des Artistes - Le Locle, Switzerland - Antenna, March 2021
Solo exhibition Galerie Focale - Nyon, Switzerland, Antenna for «Prix Focale - Ville de Nyon 2020», November 2020
Prize Prix Focale - Ville de Nyon 2020 - Swiss documentary Photography Prize - Nyon, Switzerland - Antenna, October 2020
Shortlist Prix Photoforum Pasquart 2020 - Biel/Bienne, Switzerland - Antenna, August 2020
Shortlist VFG Nachwuchsförderpreis 2020 - Zürich, Switzerland - Antenna, June 2020
Digital Show Forum Transfrontalier - Autres Frontières, Antenna, June 2020
Solo exhibition Balkkon - Neuchâtel, Switzerland, Antenna, November 2019
Shortlist ReGeneration 4 - Musée de l’Elysée - Lausanne, Switzerland, Antenna, October 2019
Solo exhibition Standard/Deluxe - Lausanne, Switzerland, Antenna, May 2019
Selection of articles about Antenna
Focale Prize 2020 https://focale.ch/exposition/antenna/
Museum of Fine Arts - Le Locle https://www.mbal.ch/expo/le-temps-des-artistes/
Standard/Deluxe http://www.standard-deluxe.ch/archive.php?expo=190503_maciejczepiel
PhotoTheoria (p.16-25) http://phototheoria.ch/f/PhotoTheoria37_201906.pdf
Region Nyon ( video ) https://regiondenyon.ch
Le Balkkon https://lebalkkon.ch/programme/2019/novembre/maciej-czepiel-vernissage/
Forum Transfrontalier https://www.forum-transfrontalier.org/autres-frontieres/maciej-czepiel/
Réposes Photo https://www.reponsesphoto.fr/actualites/maciej-czepiel-laureat-du-prix-focale-2020-10427.html#item=1
Sichtbar https://sichtbar.art/events/ausstellung-antenna-maciej-czepiel-focale-nyon
