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The installation Idle Line is essentially an alternative film projector, in which the artist has placed a loop of celluloid with an unbroken line scratched into its dark emulsion to create a transparent plane. As a result, the projection becomes a luminous line extending to infinity. This work sees Robakowski return to issues he was contemplating in the 1970s when involved with the Film Form Workshop, the first Polish artistic group to deliberately confront art with new media. Here, Robakowski treats light as the foundation for cinema and photography. Moreover, with Idle Line, he is interested in creating a field of pure energetic communication based on light impulses.