19-28.07.2019
CCA ŁAŹNIA, ul. Jaskółcza 1
The main portion of the exhibit is located in CCA LAZNIA, while display cases with works by the artists have been installed around the space of Dolne Miasto.
Related events:
MEETING / PERFORMANCE: A bastion of freedom – freedom and basta! // Paweł Paulus Mazur poses 100 questions to Bolesław Chromry and Magdalena Sawicka: 19.07.2019, 5:30pm, at the pitch on ul. Śluza 3
OPENING and HAIKU READING: Tomik’s home is his castle // Dariusz Brzóska Brzóskiewicz and Paweł Paulus Mazur: 20.07.2019, 5:30pm, CCA LAZNIA, Jaskółcza 1
DISCUSSION: Can graphic art change the world? About the “My Freedom” poster campaign // Bolesław Chromry, Patryk Hardziej, Michalina Domoń and Smutne historie spisane na kacu i tanim papierze: 21.07.2019, 5:30pm, PATIO ASP, Targ Węglowy 6
The artists create a fairy-tale parallel world – on the one hand, commenting on our dramatic reality, while on the other presenting the audience with a way of escaping into the world of fantasy. Their installations composed of ready-made objects and graphic art can delight or confound, amuse or provide a heavy dose of weltschmerz.
It seems that through their installation Sawicka and Chromry are asking the question of whether the things we possess give us a sense of freedom, or do they rather limit it; do they turn us into slaves, compulsive collectors devoid of free will? Will we come to our senses in a world hurtling towards a great cataclysm and stop for a moment? Do we still have the capacity to stem our great hunger for possession and consumerist madness? Is the only way out to create one’s own fairy tale microcosm and disconnect from a mechanized, automated world, controlled by corporations and greedy politicians? Perhaps the only salvation, the thing that keeps us afloat, is the ability to draw joy from simple things – from random trinkets found at the flea market, from listening to campy 1970s Italian hits together, or from stroking a dog’s soft fur?
Sawicka and Chrome add themselves: “We are closing the cycle of a failed economy. We buy things from people who have passed away and somehow didn’t take their vases and figurines of peeing boys to the coffins with them. We take over their belongings, stories, and holiday photos. We give them another life. Take a close look, because after our death these things will also be for sale.”