1988/2006
gelatin silver print, 33.5 × 22.5 cm (39.5 × 28.5 cm),
signed, dated and edited on the reverse, signed, dated, titled and edition on the label attached to the print
edition: 1/3 + 2 a.p.

Towards the end of the 1980s, Libera made spontaneous videos with the children who visited his mother’s home. He turned live broadcasts of plays, which involved transmitting the camera footage on a TV screen, into films, which he later made part of his artistic repertoire. However, the ultimate works were photographs - pictures of the TV screen, because the artist destroyed the original videos, fearing the secret police of the then communist government, which were harassing him at the time, and could potentially come up with false accusations of paedophilia and child-molesting.
Publication: Zbigniew Libera. Works from the Years 1982-2008 (Zachęta National Gallery of Art, BWA Wrocław, 2009).
Exhibitions: Zbigniew Libera. Works from the Years 1982-2008, Zachęta National Gallery of Art, Warszawa (2009), BWA Wrocław (2010).