Piotr Uklański: The Nazis

Working in photography, sculpture, installation, film and performance, Piotr Uklański’s decades-long practice tackles complex themes including violence, sex and death, often embracing taboo topics that have been transformed through mass media consumption and pop culture. Uklański’s “The Nazis” is an installation comprised of 164 cropped images of actors performing in German SS clothing in productions made between 1933 and 1998. In this large-scale photographic installation, Uklański underscores a sustained and collective fascination with the Third Reich as depicted through the lens of Hollywood and production companies across Europe and South America. Often saturated and glossy, Uklański’s densely arranged series is a poignant appraisal of the film industry and its commodification of a fascist regime.