Shangri La

Referring to the modern metropolis as Shangri-La, Marcin Andrzejewski provokes. He encourages the rejection of the mundane meanings that abound in the everyday hustle and bustle of the concrete beast. Shangri-La literarily represents a world that does not exist. A land of harmony and wisdom that we so desperately need. If art were to mean nothing but the emotions released, the land of the imagination would remain an intimate space of understanding with the viewer. We understand it, each individually, with the ability to experience life, but the overriding feature is that the wanderer crossing the borders of the land of Shangri-La, was forbidden to leave it. This is the provocation – the superiority of image over literature, and over the fleeting life. Whoever gets a taste of photography will not have the slightest need to leave this magical land.
Cezary Tymczuk