Familiar Strangers. The Eastern Europeans from a Polish Perspective
Familiar Strangers is an exhibition of contemporary art reflecting upon recent changes in Eastern Europe. Sadly, it is only since the violent invasion of Ukraine that the self-understanding of the European collective has expanded beyond the Western viewpoint. The exhibition presents political and social processes from the perspectives of multiple and critical identities in a region that was long considered to be culturally homogenous, even if this was never truly the case.
Familiar Strangers is an encounter of various voices: specifically of diasporas and minorities and their political struggles. It shows how fragile and complex those two-way negotiations are, between the transcultural and the local, the individual and the collective, the familiar and the uncanny in a post-communist society on its way to becoming a post-migrant one.鈥疘ts title is inspired by Stuart Hall, the late Jamaican British theorist, for whom culture was not a way of being鈥攂ut of becoming with and despite others, towards a more just society.
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Familiar Strangers is an exhibition of contemporary art reflecting upon recent changes in Eastern Europe. Sadly, it is only since the violent invasion of Ukraine that the self-understanding of the European collective has expanded beyond the Western viewpoint. The exhibition presents political and social processes from the perspectives of multiple and critical identities in a region that was long considered to be culturally homogenous, even if this was never truly the case.
Familiar Strangers is an encounter of various voices: specifically of diasporas and minorities and their political struggles. It shows how fragile and complex those two-way negotiations are, between the transcultural and the local, the individual and the collective, the familiar and the uncanny in a post-communist society on its way to becoming a post-migrant one.鈥疘ts title is inspired by Stuart Hall, the late Jamaican British theorist, for whom culture was not a way of being鈥攂ut of becoming with and despite others, towards a more just society.
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Familiar Strangers: The Eastern Europeans is an exhibition of contemporary art reflecting upon recent changes in Eastern Europe situated in the context of Poland.
The exhibition presents political and social processes from the perspectives of multiple and critical identities in a region that was long considered to be culturally homogenous, even if this was never truly the case.
