“LollipopLollipop“,2011 © Sarah Maple
Warsaw Photo Days Warsaw Pologne
PRINCESSES
INTERNATIONAL MULTIMEDIA EXHIBITION
New Space (Nowe Miejsce)
51/2 Al. Jerozolimskie (Jerozolimskie Av.)
Curator: Katarzyna Majak
Substantive consultant: Agnieszka Żechowska
Opening: October 4, 6 p.m.
DJ Wika’s concert, 7 p.m.
Duration: October 5-27, 2013
Miss Czech Republic from “I Am an Other“,Interactive video instalation, 2009 © 2. Catrine Val
A multimedia exhibition "Princesses" aims at presenting video and photographs by artists, photographers from Singapore, Japan, the United States, Germany, Canada, the UK, Finland and Poland. The common thread linking all the works displayed at the exhibition is an attempt to capture the image of the modern woman-as-a-princess. In this image, myth and fashion, aloofness and spontaneity, identity and identity crisis converge and intertwine.
Modern women are involved in the canons and conventions of pop culture, doomed to ready identity and disguise, not always the best suited and apparently requiring numerous alterations. The world of the Princesses is an ironic adaptation and, at the same time, denunciation of the canonised stereotype of female beauty.
The view of femininity presented by the artists is torn between the cultural archetype and the desire to overstep its boundaries in pursuit of individuation, between an imposed model and the craving for authenticity. Thus one may observe here various aspects of “girlisation” of women - a consequence of the suspension between the cult of youth depicted in presentations of an adult woman and the so-called Lolita effect involving younger and younger girls.
Revealing a world of ‘girlish’ desires and fantasies, which sometimes have to do - overtly or covertly - with sexuality and corporality, the artists focus on the need for transgression. In fulfilling this need, they draw upon the existing repertoire of femininity patterns, such as: the Lolita-style woman (Yoichi Nagata), the romantic (Liana Yang), the seductress (Catrine Val), the princess (Signe Pierce, Liana Yang), the social activist (Cecylia Malik, Sarah Maple), the trickster (Iiu Susiraja, Cecylia Malik), and the dreamer (Agata Michowska, Catrine Val, Liana Yang, Cecylia Malik, Frank Yamrus). They are counterpointed by the images of ‘fallen’ princesses by Dina Goldstein, which depict the clash between dreams and reality.
Artists: Cecylia Malik (Poland), Catrine Val (Germany), Frank Yamrus (USA), Liana Yang (Singapur), Agata Michowska (Poland), Yoichi Nagata (Japan), Signe Pierce (USA), Dina Goldstein (Canada), Sarah Maple (Great Britain), Iiu Susiraja (Finland), Amy Stevens (USA).
Exhibition with a catalogue, texts by: Katarzyna Majak, Agnieszka Żechowska, Ewa Tatar
Exhibition Partner: New Space (Nowe Miejsce)
At the exhibition presented will be works by Cecylia Malik from the collection of the Art Bunker in Cracow (Bunkier Sztuki w Krakowie)
Loves me Loves me Not, video still, 2013 © Iiu Susiraja
Lush For Life, 2010 © 6. Signe Pierce
PHOTO-OBJECT
EXHIBITION OF PHOTOGRAPHIC OBJECTS
Propaganda Gallery (Galeria Propaganda)
11 Foksal St., Warsaw
Curators: Leszek Golec, Jagna Olejnikowska
Opening: October 5, 7 p.m.
Duration: October 5-31, 2013
Adult Fairy Tales, 2008 © Magdalena Krajewska
Photo-object is a broad and multifaceted concept. As an alternative form of photography, due to extension of a plane spatial illusion by the real space, goes beyond a traditional concept of the photographic medium. It is characterized by uniqueness and diversity. Being closest to the field of sculpture, a photographic object may also be derived from the tradition of other fields of arts: painting, scenic design, film and photography itself. Hence, its intermediality and multifaceted nature.
Expanding the boundaries of classical photography and above all, their crossing have become extremely inspirational to many Polish artists from the sixties. In particular, the next decade brought a wealth of photo-spatial experiments. The famous exhibition of 1971 "Photographers’ Quest" / “Fotografowie poszukujący” showed this phenomenon in the works of Józef Robakowski, Wojciech Bruszewski or Natalia LL.
Another stage of this type of projects took place in 1988 at the exhibition: “Polish Intermedial Photography of the Eighties” / Polska Fotografia Intermedialna lat 80-tych, where it was possible to see many objects reflecting different ways of dealing with photography; e.g. objects by Krzysztof Cichosz, Zygmunt Rytka or Grzegorz Przyborek.
The above-mentioned names may also be found at the current exhibition: "PHOTO-OBJECT". However, we do not limit ourselves to a certain historical segment of the history of photographic object. "PHOTO-OBJECT" exhibition is guided by the idea to show a broader spectrum of this issue. It is still an inspiring and interesting form which contemporary artists are reaching for. Therefore, we will see both the works from the sixties of the twentieth century, when Polish photo-object was being born, and projects of the past few decades as well as the latest contemporary realization that will be presented at the exhibition for the first time.
Artists: Janusz Bałdyga, Kuba Bąkowski, Jacek Bąkowski, Janusz Bąkowski, Krzysztof Bednarski, Sławomir Belina, Bożena Biskupska, Wojciech Bruszewski, Marek Cecula, Krzysztof Cichosz, Tomasz Ciecierski, Lucjan Demidowski, Leszek Golec, Jerzy Grzegorski, Łódź Kaliska, Jerzy Kalina, Magdalena Krajewska, Edward Krasiński, Jacek Kryszkowski, Henryk Kuś, Natalia LL, Katarzyna Majak, Jacek Malicki, Tomasz Matuszak, Krzysztof Morcinek, Marek Piasecki, Waldemar Pranckiewicz, Grzegorz Przyborek, Jagoda Przybylak, Józef Robakowski, Andrzej Różycki, Robert Rumas, Zofia Rydet, Zygmunt Rytka, Zdzisław Słomski, Andrzej Świetlik, Jerzy Truszkowski, Jan St. Wojciechowski, Krzysztof Wojciechowski, Wojciech Zasadni, Joanna Zemanek.
Exhibition with a catalogue; text by: Adam Sobota
Exhibition Partners: Centre of Polish Sculpture in Orońsko (Centrum Rzeźby Polskiej w Orońsku), CCA Elektrownia (MCSW Elektrownia)
Józef Robakowski, Kaleidoscope, 1971 © Jerzy Grzegorski
Metamorphosis series, 1957-80, courtesy of the Foundation of Zofia Rydet in Cracow © Zofia Rydet
WARSAW PHOTO DAYS PROGRAMME 18-22 OCTOBER:
October 18, 2013, 6 p.m.
Discussion on the “Princesses” exhibition with the participation of Sylwia Chutnik and Agnieszka Żechowska,
New Space (Nowe Miejsce), 51/2 Al. Jerozolimskie (Jerozolimskie Av.), Warsaw
A multimedia exhibition "Princesses" aims at presenting video and photographs by artists, photographers from Singapore, Japan, the United States, Germany, Canada, the UK, Finland and Poland. The common thread linking all the works displayed at the exhibition is an attempt to capture the image of the modern woman-as-a-princess. In this image, myth and fashion, aloofness and spontaneity, identity and identity crisis converge and intertwine.
Artists: Cecylia Malik (Poland), Catrine Val (Germany), Frank Yamrus (USA), Liana Yang (Singapur), Agata Michowska (Poland), Yoichi Nagata (Japan), Signe Pierce (USA), Dina Goldstein (Canada), Sarah Maple (Great Britain), Iiu Susiraja (Finland), Amy Stevens (USA).
Curator: Katarzyna Majak
Substantive consultant: Agnieszka Żechowska
Exhibition runs: October 5-27, 2013
http://warsawphotodays.com/en/exhibitions/princesses
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October 19, 2013
Old Gallery (Stara Galeria), 8 Zamkowy Sq., Warsaw
11-12.30 a.m.
PHOTOCASTS
Curator: Andrzej Zygmuntowicz
Presented, among others, will be works by: Krystian Bielatowicz, Adam Lach, Piotr Małecki, Maciej Nabrdalik and Albert Zawada.
4.30 - 5 p.m.
SLIDELUCK
Introduction: Katarzyna Majak,
‘Princesses‘ Slideshow curator: Maria Teresa Salvati - co-director of Slideluck London and Director of Slideluck Europe
5 - 5.45 p.m.
Photography from Pan Asia selected by Editor-in-Chief of Emaho Magazine - Manik Katyal (slideshow)
Artists: Zhang Xiao – China, Prasiit Sthapit – Nepal, Kursat Bayan – Turkey, Miti Ruangkritya – Thailand, Tanya Habjouqa – Jerusalem, Samsul Rehman – Bangladesh, Mahesh Shantaram – India.
6 - 7 p.m.
“Treasures of the Slovak photography of the 20th and 21st Century" and the presentation of the second volume of "The History of European Photography" - the first complete encyclopedia on the history of photography of the 20th century with the participation of Michaela Bosakova from the House of Photography in Bratislava.
Special thanks to the Slovak Insitute in Warsaw who made Michaela Bosakova’s stay in Warsaw possible.
October 21-22
GESTURE TOWARDS PHOTOGRAPHY – Performative Symposium
Zacheta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw
Concept: Krzysztof Pijarski
The main focus of the symposium will be to investigate, describe, and above all, to “demonstrate” the visual and practical ways of expressing thought; to “show” the work of an imagination and critical mind that expresses itself in and through photographic images. Such a formula is based on the assumption that it is artists who most effectively “think” in and by means of images.
To show this imagination at work, one has to break, or at least to transform, the convention of a traditional scholarly conference. Hence the performative nature of the event, which is an attempt at moving away from thinking of such an event as a series of lectures but rather as a series of meetings, interactions. In place of a situation where the speaker, separated from the audience, shares his already prepared knowledge, the performative symposium proposes a meeting of several people – artists and theorists – to discuss specific photographs in any format, books or contact sheets, in order to “discover” or explore them – for each other and for the gathered audience. The process of discovering / exploring the images will be carried out not only through a discussion, but essentially, via the exchange of gestures: by pointing a finger, juxtaposing, cropping, inscribing, outlining, etc. – the whole repertoire of responses to the images which the body has at its disposal.
Oct 21
3 p.m. – Rafal Milach, Anna Nalecka / Joanna Kinowska
5 p.m. – Bownik / Weronika Szczawinska
7 p.m. – Aneta Grzeszykowska, Jan Smaga / Katarzyna Bojarska
Oct 22
3 p.m. – Nicolas Grospierre / Kuba Mikurda
5 p.m. – Lukasz Gorczyca, Michał Kaczyński / Pawel Szypulski
7 p.m. – Elzbieta Janicka, Wojciech Wilczyk / Waldemar Baraniewski
http://warsawphotodays.com/en/symposium
festival organizer:
ZPAF Warsaw District
http://warsawphotodays.com/en/schedule