The Discomfort of Evening
The Discomfort of Evening is an exhibition of works created mainly during the last three years (2020鈥�2022) using all sorts of media: from painting, which has recently enjoyed immense popularity, to drawing, sculptural installation, video, photography, ceramics, textile, performance and actions. Born between 1985 and 2000, the artists include both recent debutants and those with an established position and recognised artistic practice, whose works have not yet been shown at the Zach臋ta. 鈥榊outh鈥� is a problematic and blurred category, and observing artistic phenomena through a generational lens may seem incongruent with the contemporary times, which is why age is not a defining criterion.
The exhibition borrows its title from the novel by Marieke Lucas Rijneveld (b. 1991), whose ten-year-old protagonist one day resolves 鈥榥ot to let anything go鈥� and stops taking off her coat, which becomes her armour and a symbolic mark of trauma. Rijneveld writes in a highly suggestive manner about emotional deficits, mourning, the end of the world associated with childhood. The eponymous discomfort appears as a fundamental emotion felt every day not only by the protagonist of the book, but also by us.
The exhibition is therefore not only an extensive showcase of young Polish art, but above all a story about anxieties, emotions and the potential they hold for change. Although its form refers to a traditionally understood survey of current art, it does not concentrate on mapping phenomena, tendencies and most significant approaches; nor does it point at the key actors on the art scene. It highlights generational sensibility and various ways of reacting to tensions and changes. Last but not least, it seeks what is common instead of showcasing individualities or original approaches. For the sense of belonging and community of feelings hold the power to dismantle individualism (still doing well in art) and may become a starting point for building something new. The exhibition offers an opportunity to explore languages used to express something so hard to describe: uncertainty, lack of faith in the future, and to survey the strategies of appropriating the narrative of one鈥檚 own trauma and fear.
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The Discomfort of Evening is an exhibition of works created mainly during the last three years (2020鈥�2022) using all sorts of media: from painting, which has recently enjoyed immense popularity, to drawing, sculptural installation, video, photography, ceramics, textile, performance and actions. Born between 1985 and 2000, the artists include both recent debutants and those with an established position and recognised artistic practice, whose works have not yet been shown at the Zach臋ta. 鈥榊outh鈥� is a problematic and blurred category, and observing artistic phenomena through a generational lens may seem incongruent with the contemporary times, which is why age is not a defining criterion.
The exhibition borrows its title from the novel by Marieke Lucas Rijneveld (b. 1991), whose ten-year-old protagonist one day resolves 鈥榥ot to let anything go鈥� and stops taking off her coat, which becomes her armour and a symbolic mark of trauma. Rijneveld writes in a highly suggestive manner about emotional deficits, mourning, the end of the world associated with childhood. The eponymous discomfort appears as a fundamental emotion felt every day not only by the protagonist of the book, but also by us.
The exhibition is therefore not only an extensive showcase of young Polish art, but above all a story about anxieties, emotions and the potential they hold for change. Although its form refers to a traditionally understood survey of current art, it does not concentrate on mapping phenomena, tendencies and most significant approaches; nor does it point at the key actors on the art scene. It highlights generational sensibility and various ways of reacting to tensions and changes. Last but not least, it seeks what is common instead of showcasing individualities or original approaches. For the sense of belonging and community of feelings hold the power to dismantle individualism (still doing well in art) and may become a starting point for building something new. The exhibition offers an opportunity to explore languages used to express something so hard to describe: uncertainty, lack of faith in the future, and to survey the strategies of appropriating the narrative of one鈥檚 own trauma and fear.
Artists on show
- Adam Kozicki
- Agata Ingarden
- Agata S艂owak
- Agnieszka Antkowiak
- Agnieszka Sejud
- Ala Savashevich
- Aleksandra Liput
- Anna Grzyma艂a
- Bartosz Zaskorski
- Cyryl Polaczek
- Denim Szram
- Diana Lelonek
- Eternal Engine
- Filip Preis
- Filip Rybkowski
- Hanna Krzysztofiak
- Horacy Muszy艅ski
- Irmina Rusicka
- Iwo Panasiewicz
- Jagoda Dobecka
- Jakub Glinski
- Jan Baszak
- Jan Eustachy Wolski
- Jan Jurczak
- Julia Woronowicz
- Justyna Górowska
- Kacper Szalecki
- Kamila Walendykiewicz
- Karol Palczak
- Karolina Balcer
- Karolina Jab艂o艅ska
- Karolina Konopka
- Karolina Pawelczyk
- Karolina Wojtas
- Kasper Lecnim
- Katarzyna Bogucka
- Katarzyna Olma
- Kinga Dobosz
- Kinga Michalska
- Konrad 呕ukowski
- Kornel Le艣niak
- Kuba St臋pie艅
- Lena Achtelik
- Liliana Zeic
- 艁ukasz Stok艂osa
- Maja Janczar
- Ma艂gorzata Mycek
- Marcelina Gorczy艅ska
- Maria Kniaginin-Ciszewska
- Marta Niedbal
- Marta Romankiv
- Martyna Czech
- Martyna Miller
- Martyna Pinkowska
- Mateusz Sarzy艅ski
- Mateusz Wo艣
- Micha艂 Mali艅ski
- Miko艂aj Sobczak
- Milena Liebe
- Monika Falkus
- Monika Orpik
- Nikita Krzy偶anowska
- Ola Tubielewicz
- Patryk Ró偶ycki
- Paulina Stasik
- Pawe艂 Ba艣nik
- Pawel Olszczynski
- Piotr Marzec
- Sara Kukier
- Sebastian Winkler
- Sesama
- Stachu Szumski
- Tomasz Kr臋cicki
- Tomek Paszkowicz
- Tytus Szabelski
- Veronika Hapchenko
- Wiktor Ga艂ka
- Wiktoria Walendzik
- Yulia Krivich
- Zofia Palucha
- Zuza Goli艅ska
- Zuza Piekoszewska
- Zuzanna Bartoszek
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