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Prophetically entitled Only those who planned will survive, the piece refers to the apocalypse anticipated by all generations.

Piotr Wyrzykowski attempts to illustrate the systemic and violent policy towards European societies, using extensive media. Transporting the events of everyday life underground creates negative associations: from being forced to hide from persecutors, for example during WWII, to the enslavement of children and women by deviants or pimps. The formal aspect of the videos enhances the atmosphere of horror: the image is black and white, high-contrast; the vignette frames seem to come from an archival record created decades ago. The video is accompanied by an ambient sound that seems to emanate from the abyss.

Wyrzykowski turns our attention towards the politicization of everyday life and control. In this installation, he shows how far the system of power penetrates into personal space and determines the actions of individuals. Both the world in which we’ll have to survive and the awareness of this inevitability in the face of new threats are both oppressive.

The Performance Archive consists of items from the first half of the 1990s, when performances in front of the public were Piotr Wyrzykowski’s fundamental form of artistic expression. It is both a testimony to the formation of the artist's creative programme and an expression of consistent statements about performance and the artist’s understanding of the ways in which the body experiences media that establish new areas of communication and accumulation and strengthen and expand the spatial and temporal dimensions of bodily activity. The themes present in early performances are developed in Wyrzykowski’s later work.