photos: Tytus Szabelski-Różniak
Artists:
Pamela Bożek, DIS/ORDER, Monika Drożyńska, Elżbieta Jabłońska
Lesia Khomenko, Bartłomiej Kiełbowicz, Cecylia Malik,
MATERNAL FANTASIES, Bára Šimková, Jaśmina Wójcik
Curated by Eliza Urwanowicz-Rojecka Graphic identity: Tomek Pawluczuk
The exhibition explores the issue of parenthood interpreted as a process fitting economies of social care and generosity.
We live in breakthrough times, in a dynamically changing reality system solutions cannot keep up with, continually searching for narratives to “organise” or “hack” the future; in times of a war well-nigh on our doorstep, of climate, epidemic, geopolitical, humanitarian and migration crises. Given the relentless frequency of institutional inefficiency and oppressiveness, the cur-rent and future wellbeing of Children is increasingly dependent on their parents’ involvement, openness and creativity. Daily and regular parenting practices, individual and community-based alike, offer an opportunity for creating new patterns, solutions and representations assisting the child in his/her/their development in emotional-and-intellectual, social, physical and ethical terms. An actively thinking, feeling, acting citizen of the world, the subjectively treated Child remains at the core of all practices. Yet parental self-care and focus on parental wellbeing is an equally essential practice-related component.
All works shown analyse the parenthood phenomenon from an individual and social perspec-tive, occasionally mixing and blending the two orders, showcasing their intermingling and mu-tual dependence. After all, cultural imaginings or archetypes are processed or transcended through our own experiences, feelings, daily lives.
Parenthood will be approached in the context of emotions and thinking styles as well as daily practices focused on the here and now as well as on the future, near and distant alike.
Eliza Urwanowicz-Rojecka