ARTISTS
Monumentomania: 11th Edition Of The Warsaw Under Construction Festival
But why construct more monuments? And who needs another exhibition about them? Aren鈥檛 monuments obsolete? And most of all: in light of all the conflicts erupting over monuments, shouldn鈥檛 we discard this medium once and for all?
It seems that we can鈥檛 just give up on them 鈥� the stake is too high. These public media of memory are just as much about the present and about the conceivable futures, as they are about the past. They are just as much about visualizing a set of desirable social roles, ways of understanding the public sphere, power and community, as they are about canonizing a set of heroes, values, and historical events. Paradoxically, in an age dominated by uncountable, elusive and free-floating images, these heavy, static elements of the urban landscape still have the capability of generating strong emotions, of gaining new meanings and unexpected agency.
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But why construct more monuments? And who needs another exhibition about them? Aren鈥檛 monuments obsolete? And most of all: in light of all the conflicts erupting over monuments, shouldn鈥檛 we discard this medium once and for all?
It seems that we can鈥檛 just give up on them 鈥� the stake is too high. These public media of memory are just as much about the present and about the conceivable futures, as they are about the past. They are just as much about visualizing a set of desirable social roles, ways of understanding the public sphere, power and community, as they are about canonizing a set of heroes, values, and historical events. Paradoxically, in an age dominated by uncountable, elusive and free-floating images, these heavy, static elements of the urban landscape still have the capability of generating strong emotions, of gaining new meanings and unexpected agency.
Artists on show
- Aleka Polis
- Alicja Rogalska
- Anna Shimomura
- Daniel Malone
- Daniel Rumiancew
- Daniel Rycharski
- Dominika Olszowy
- Franciszek Orlowski
- Gizela Mickiewicz
- Jan Mo偶d偶y艅ski
- Józef Ga艂膮zka
- Karolina Brzuzan
- Karolina Go艂臋biowska
- Krzysztof Pijarski
- Liliana Piskorska
- Lukasz Skapski
- 艁ukasz Surowiec
- Micha艂 Soja
- Olga Mici艅ska
- Piotr 艁akomy
- Ró偶a Duda
- Stanis艂aw Welbel
- Szymon Rogi艅ski
- Witek Orski
- Zbiorowy Collective
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