Special thanks to the artists supporting and consulting during the artistic residency process: Aleksandra Gieraga, Anna Królikiewicz, Antoni Starowieyski, Arkadiusz Sylwestrowicz.
It seems that for an artist, it can take only a month to paint a number of pictures. While in fact the process of creating an artwork takes a lifetime – gathering experiences, observations, reflections and skills. The works on this exhibition can be described similarly. The residency of the artists lasted in fact a few weeks, but at the same time it is a summary of the artists' lifes so far, the reality they live – the closest one, private and public, shaping the history.
Dictatorship as a concept became the unifying problematic for the two young artists. Perhaps, political dictatorship is the most obvious embodiment of this concept. But how do politicians perform their dictatorship? Sasza Baszynski talks about this in his project. He moves away from the direct appeal to dictators and concentrates his attention on the microphone as a tool for the implementation of the dictatorship. Wandering around the meaning of the microphone, Sasha as well comes across figures in history who cannot be qualified as dictators. Yet, they also use the microphone as a tool to speak. This aligns them with recognized dictators, thus building a conflict between them.
Ania Kwiatkowska investigates the dictatorship of everyday life. She recreates the elements of her own daily life in the exhibition space. The already tried and tested artistic method situation trouvé unfolds in the gallery space a still life installation, speaking about the pressure of planned tasks, shelved and written lists of unfulfilled obligations that grow day by day. The dictatorship is intrusive and obsessive. Our everyday life turns out to be dictatorial in nature. But how to fight it, is it worth it, is it possible to overthrow it and what will happen after, remains a question.
Olga Klip
Sasza Baszynski, “Those, who speak”
“
those, who speak – a series of portraits who speak into the microphone.
they speak because they got this opportunity
they speak because they have to be heard...
the whole world hears them
but not always listening.
politics of the sound.
…the characters are secondary when the tool is presented as a choice.
a tool of choosing
a microphone.
”
Ania Kwiatkowska, Everyday dictatorship – still life, July’21
“The chaotic life after graduating from art academy and the attempt to cope with planning for the future took over my residency time. I spent a lot of time cleaning my flat and studio after the turbulent period of my diploma. Daily activities such as washing, arranging items and, in general, tidying up, completely overwhelmed my time and generated a great deal of tiredness and growing frustration in me. However, despite my exhaustion, I still force the duty of pure space in fear of being judged by the surrounding.
I decided that as a result of the residency I will present the noticed moment, which is often not coded by us in our everyday life.”
The exhibition is an effect of the monthly artistic residencies of two painters, awarded in the 3rd Wojciech Fangor National Student Painting Competition, organized by the Faculty of Painting of the Academy of Fine Arts in Gdańsk in 2020. The idea was to single out the most intriguing emerging artists and promote their work. The competition attracted graduates and 2nd–5th year students of painting from universities from all over Poland. Apart from the Main Prize awarded by the Fangor Foundation and Special Prize awarded by the Faculty of Painting of the AFA in Gdańsk, winners of the competition were provided with solo exhibition opportunities in Polish exhibition venues. LAZNIA CCA, part of the competition jury since the previous edition in 2018, awarded an additional prize in the form of an artist residency.
The exhibition is curated by Olga Klip – currently staying at the half-year curatorial residency at LAZNIA CCA, in the frames of "Gaude Polonia" program of the National Center for Culture.
Sasza Baszynski
Born in Zhytomyr, Ukraine, lives and works in Wrocław. Between 2011 – 2017 he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Kiev (previously he graduated from the T. Shevchenko State Art College in Kiev). In 2016, he participated in the project "Loving Vincent" as an animator (in 2018, "Loving Vincent" was nominated for an Oscar for the best full-length animation). In 2019, he participated in the Open Call Winners Exhibition 2019, The Print Space, London and received a commendation in the "Impet" competition, Galeria Dominikańska in Wrocław.
Ania Kwiatkowska
Born in 1997 in Bydgoszcz. She is a fifth year student of Painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Gdańsk. From 2019, a resident of the Artists Colony in Lower Town district. Finalist of the 19th edition of the Hestia Artistic Journey competition and winner of the rector's award in the 3rd Wojciech Fangor National Student Painting Competition. Anna Kwiatkowska works mainly with painting and drawing.
Olga Klip
Art curator and gallerist based in Minsk, Belarus. She has a Master's degree in Visual and Cultural Studies and a second Master's degree in Art History. She studied art history and theory at the St. Petersburt State University, art criticism at the European Humanities University in Minsk and Vilnius, and museum studies at Ecole du Louvre in Paris. Olga Klip worked at the National Art Museum in Minsk for 6 years, curated the Belgazprombank corporate collection, she has been managing and curating a contemporary art gallery in Minsk since 2016 and has been making independent curatorial projects since 2013 in museums in Belarus and Russia. One of her major projects is devoted to underestimated artists and audience development where according to the idea each and every artist can take part in an exhibition with one artwork of his/her choice (яяя.бел).
The artist residencies and exhibition are part of AIR Incubator, in the frames of LAZNIA CCA’s “Incubator” programme aimed at presenting and promoting young art. By showcasing its most interesting manifestations, it reveals the new language of art. It is meant to make audiences and curators aware of the enormous potential of the emerging generation of artists. The programme is open to debate and entails individual and group presentations that are conducive to an exchange of experience. We want the “Incubator” to serve as a confrontation platform for the young art scene and to contribute to research on emerging trends.
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