Exhibition opening: Sunday, June 4, 2023, at 20.30
Curator: Katarzyna Jankowiak-Gumna
Vernissage with the participation of: Choir Reverberations under the direction of Joanna Sykulska
hurdy-gurdy – Malwina Paszek
composition, electronics – Patryk Lichota
The words of the popular song were the direct inspiration for the facility designed by prof. Izabella Gustowska to Poznań Visual Park. However, I. Gustowska, who art theoreticians write about as having created the foundation for contemporary feminist art history in Poland, edited the content of the song so that it was clear that Baba knows how to sow poppy seeds and does not need a grandfather to do so. Poznań Visual Park will be enriched with a new, already 19th object – the first one, whose author is a woman, but with a very clear feminist overtone. It will also be the first light and acoustic object in the PVP collection: after dusk, the head of the poppies will glow with a delicate orange light, and the motion detector will start playing the song about Baba who sowed poppy seeds performed by the Reverbs Choir.
Memories
curator: Jagna Domżalska
The exhibition will present a series of 44 photographs made in the enamel technique. They are personal notes from 44 years of the artist’s presence, photographed in the mirrors of her own home, in hotel rooms, in bathroom interiors, in museums and galleries, in window panes, shop windows, in elevators, on trains, in random situations. The series is also a kind of homage to the next generations of cameras, which from the beginning were one of the basic instruments of the artistic creation of prof. Gustowska, who writes about the “Memory” series: “It is a record of my life from the girl with the Pentacon from 1978, whose gaze seems uncertain to the last woman who consciously sticks to the inscription Memory at Documenta in Kassel in 2022.”
