AUTOFIRE

"AUTO FIRE" is a cycle of Paweł Fabjański’s photos that treat – among others – about uncertainty, indecisiveness, ones habits, ones anger. Its universal protagonist is someone about 30 years old and at this point he looks back at his life.

The title "AUTO FIRE" brings the need of defining ones private emotions and feelings (or, sometimes, lack of those). This symbolic 30s’ birthday is defined as a moment when one takes the opportunity to reconstruct heretofore life’s episodes into the most secure and safe for its own psyche form of narrative.

The state of ‘in-between’ is the strongest linkage between the characters in the photos. Many oppositions demand a final resolution. Fabjański correctly picks up everyday absurdity. He takes out its context of routine and shows it in form of an action snapshot that is, at the same time, both documental and abstract.

The protagonists of the photos are suspended-like, since they are accompanied by an accumulated tension at an edge of blowing up in a second. Impression of a recently captured snapshot is heighten by its filmographic scenography. But will it twitch, will something happen? Isn’t it that it has already happened and now we’re just left here to analyse and understand it?

Magda Grancarek