In recent days, the topics of community, mutual understanding, and the ways we perceive people with different life experiences have become especially relevant. These are precisely the issues explored in the exhibition Clinic of Collective Representations.
Join us this Friday (31 July) at 3:00 PM for a curator-led tour with Magdalena Basak, co-curator of the exhibition. The tour will offer an opportunity to explore works by artists addressing stereotypes, migration, exclusion, and empathy, while reflecting on how culturally rooted representations shape our everyday relationships.
For Magdalena Basak, everyday life is where our relationships, gestures of care, misunderstandings, and encounters with others unfold. It is in these ordinary situations that the values, beliefs, and mechanisms influencing our ability to build trust, safety, and mutual respect become visible.
Collaboration and attentiveness to others are at the heart of her curatorial practice. This tour will therefore be more than an introduction to the exhibited works—it will be an invitation to reflect together on what can help us better understand ourselves, one another, and the world around us.
During the tour, we will stop at Disintegration, an installation by Belarusian artist Anastazja Rydlevskaya, which reflects on the experience of living as a migrant in Poland. We will also discuss Karolina Balcer’s work exploring the mechanisms and consequences of labelling people in public space, as well as Ewa Dąbkowska’s work, which encourages attentiveness to the world and to other living beings.
We will also explore Flying Carpet, an installation created by Iza Rutkowska in collaboration with a local design community in Ghana. The work reflects on migration, interdependence, and the possibility of unlearning simplified ways of seeing the world that make building community more difficult.
The tour will also include Phantom, a sculpture by Joanna Pawlik, It reflects anyway…, a video by Kuba Stępień, and A Fairy Tale About Banks, an audio work by Agnieszka Wolny-Hamkało.
The tour will provide space for conversation and collective reflection on how communities are formed and how the representations embedded in culture shape our everyday lives.
