Robert Szczerbowski, born 1959, lives in Warsaw. He began his artistic activity as a writer. However, he gradually moved away from the sphere of language, increasingly including visual elements in his works. He analyzes the social and philosophical aspects of the new born digital era, paying special attention to the consequences of the emergence of virtual reality and artificial intelligence.
"Szczerbowski's work eludes precise definitions and schematic references. The artist plays with art. He builds his own dimension of fiction regardless of the medium he uses. His books, paintings, objects and films deconstruct learned ways of perception. They shatter illusions, often evoking a feeling of absurdity. He uses the language of 'high technology' and analyses its impact on the inner space of man, his spiritual needs and imagination. In his objects and installations he uses, among others, hermetic computer programming languages, and in his paintings he refers to fractal geometry. In most of his works he strives to erase the subjective element, trying to make their fictional and apocryphal reality as credible as possible. Some of his books were published anonymously, and many of his works of art are simulacra. He creates films that discredit the mechanisms of the hypnotic reality of mainstream cinema."
D. Misiuna, Chaosmos
