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Zuzanna Janin’s SHAME (femmage a Aneta Szyłak), “Overcoming the shame culture,” curator’s statement
Overcoming the shame culture It seems very likely that the structuring of associations and attachments around the affect shame is among the most telling differentials among cultures and times: not that the entire world can be divided between (supposedly primitive) ‘‘shame cultures’’ and (supposedly evolved) ‘‘guilt cultures,’’ but rather that, as an affect, shame is a component (and dfferently a component) of all. …
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Opening of Zuzanna Janin’s SHAME / wernisaż wystawy Zuzanny Janin SHAME
Zuzanna Janin, SHAME, femmage a Aneta Szyłak, curator: Julia Stachura, Gallery Women’s Time, opening 05/22/2024 6 pm., cooperation Anna Świątkowska, Maria Czarnecka, Monika Młynarczyk. Night dedicated to memory of Aneta Szyłak and Ana Mendieta. All photos taken by Julia Stachura.
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Henry Taylor’s B Side
The joy that brings Henry Taylor’s exhibition “B Side” to the art geeks is immaculate! Rich in references, from pop culture, art history, music, sports, and politics, Taylor’s visual world is full of color, bold statements, symbolism, satire, humor, and criticism. As curatorial statement mentions, the artists “dynamic composition echoes the complexity and rhythmic, improvisational…
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Tracey Rose in Queens Museum
A vibrant, radical, and full of references and symbolism retrospective exhibition of Tracey Rose at Queens Museum. In “Shooting Down Babylon” the South-African multimedia artist uses body as a site of protest, outrage, resistance and discussion. As I entered the exhibition I saw three words inscribed onto the wall that stuck to my mind: repatriation,…
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She Is The Fountain. On María Magdalena Campos-Pons.
Only an artist can tell … what it is like for anyone who gets to this planet to survive it. James Baldwin This is precisely the time when artists go to work. There is no time for despair, no place for self- pity, no need for silence, no room for fear. We speak, we write,…
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