Thanks to this conversation, you will learn:
- What concepts guided Ilona Witkowska (poet) and Alicja Kielan (artist) in their video work, which artwork they referenced, and what film techniques they used.
- Which objects by Krystyna Michałowska-Podsiadły were featured in the film.
- What social challenges postwar women artists faced.
- What the working dynamics between Ilona Witkowska and Alicja Kielan looked like during the making of the film.
- How the exhibition title “Some People Don’t Remember the Color of Their Mother’s Eyes” was created.
The conversation took place on October 11, 2025, during a public forum in the popular science series “15% of Abstraction”, organized by the Art Transparent Foundation. This year, the focus was on the social, material, and affective dimensions of women artists’ work, with particular attention given to sculptors, ceramicists, and designers from Lower Silesia.
The forum “Blank Spots Are… – Postwar Women Sculptors and Ceramicists of Wrocław” provided an open space to gather dispersed materials and stories about the lives and artistic work of Wrocław’s sculptors and ceramicists, including Janina Szczypczyńska, Regina Konieczka, and the Skomorowska sisters. Four discussions and one lecture were held, exploring not only the historical contexts of these artists’ biographies but also their legacies and influence on the art of subsequent generations.