Opening: 9 October 2015, 6 pm
Exhibition will run: 10 October 2015 – 29 November 2015
Artists: Adel Abidin, Anca Benera & Arnold Estefán, Mihaela Drăgan, Monika Drożyńska, Aslan Gaisumov, Agnieszka Kalinowska, Yuri Leiderman, Nicoleta Moise & Olalla Castro, Dorota Podlaska, Maya Sumbadze, Ferhat Özgür, Alicja Żebrowska & Jacek Lichoń
Curators: Anna Smolak and Raluca Voinea
Exhibition design: Mikołaj Małek
Graphic design: Eduard Constantin
Exhibition assistants: Małgorzata Miśkowiec, Monika Smyła
Educational program: Joanna Furtas, Katarzyna Kożuch
“These days, a ‘Welcome’ sign turned rusty and derelict, hangs invisibly, in the wind at all the European borders. Gates open randomly, reflecting starry light through bullet holes. Some people are lucky to get through, at least as far as the next fence. The flowers, the young girls, the young men and the soldiers are all long gone. Graveyards are opening and the victims of mass killings are being resurrected to meet one another, when the poles of the Earth are reversed and the new Elysium is relocated south. Three soldiers light their cigarettes with the same match, the third one will be shot. There is a time when everyone needs a refuge. Temporary shelters bring together strangers with the estranged, where all they share are stories and flavours, too seldom hope. Young girls and young men are still getting married, according to all the rituals, some of them against their will. Tradition and emancipation, belonging and desire, fate and rebellion, mourning and joy all conflict in our everyday lives and in the news we read or experience. This is as true now as it was a hundred years ago and will perhaps be two hundred years from now.”
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