Pytasz, czy to już wszystko
Curated by Patrycja Ciastko and Hubert Kurkiewicz
Grey House Foundation, Kraków (PL), 2024
You open your eyes, awakening from a shallow sleep. Catching your first breath, you try to recall its escaping contents. Some fragments you remember immediately, others blur together, forming a blurry cluster of memories. You connect seemingly incongruous threads, hoping to fill in the gaps in the story. You don’t know whether to try to fall asleep again, or rather quickly write down what’s left in your head. You stare at the ceiling in the naive belief that this passivity will lead to any satisfactory solution. Suddenly reality dematerialises. You rub your eyes, there you are again. You still don’t remember what happened before, but what you see seems familiar.
In the exhibition “you ask if it’s all over” the state of suspension — between dream and waking, hope and sentiment, transience and constancy — is important. It is like a conversation at two poles, where the answer, as never, is in the middle. This dialogue is expressed in the works of five female artists, finalists of the Grey House Foundation Competition. Collected fragments of reality — both physical and virtual — come together to form narrative micro-collages.
Artists: Weronika Guenther, Agata Lankamer, Ant Lakomsk, Alicja Pakosz and Magdalena Tryba.
