Skaters

Site-specific video mural. People skating on the Rockefeller Center ring (NY) become projected into a white wall as tiny figures shown in negative: anonymous silhouettes circling around in empty space. In this work, as in many others (to mention “Vital Statistics”, “Gliders”, “Skiers” or “NY Marathon”), people are reduced to the function of an ornament, which Lejman often identifies with the concept of statistics. As a dominant mode of description of contemporary society, statistics transforms the individual into an element of a pattern, a multiplied confirmation of collective fate, a fragment of an ornament adorning the surface of postmodern civilisation (Stach Szabłowski, 2006).