Muzeum i archiwum. O obiektach scenograficznych Jerzego Grzegorzewskiego

The subject of the article is the ontological status of Jerzy Grzegorzewski’s scenography objects, as objets trouvés that are tools in the director’s hands. The analysis follows the change that takes place when the objects become part of visual archives, outside the context of a performance. The discussed archives, Inwentaryzacja and Archiwum JG, remove the objects’ materiality, instead offering a photographic representation. In the first case, the objects are photographed separately and tagged. In the other, hipertextual archive, the scenography objects become elements of a dynamic system of references, in which photography coexists with a description and historians’ narrative. The archives, therefore, preserve the traces of the theatre, but at the same time they change the meaning of those traces, transforming elements of what was once whole (theatrical scenography) into autonomous works of art.