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OPEN CALL
CLOSED

Anyone can turn into a migrant.

Pushed by circumstances, running in search of a safe place and themselves. However after stepping on the quiet solid shore, the rocking state does not go away. What is the cause of this dizziness and nausea? The indigestibility of endless news, a loss stuck in the throat or a toxicosis caused by unfulfilled hopes?
 

Anyone can turn into a medium.

Seeking to explain and justify the present, new arrivals flock to a spiritual seance. In the circle formed, everyone connects to their own channels, entering their own cozy trance to talk to ghosts. More and more often in this wandering through the past, they can meet the ghost of the future, answering their uncomfortable questions to questions.
 

Anyone can turn into a stranger.

In this space, riddled with changes, one ceases to recognise one's former self. The 'seasickness' makes it hard for a migrant to focus, ghosts rattle riddles and set up their moral traps for a medium, and a stranger constantly falls between two, three, multiple realities and opinions. Is it a side-effect of traveling through space, or is it simply because any space becomes shaken, alienated, regardless of who is in the waiting room?

THE EXHIBITION OFFERS AN OPPORTUNITY TO REFLECT ON THE THREE STATES (MIGRANT, MEDIUM, STRANGER) IN DIFFERENT ASPECTS RELATED TO CONTEMPORARY POLITICAL AND SOCIETAL EVENTS AND CHANGES, OR TO DESIGNATE A METAPHORICAL WAITING ROOM.

THE EXHIBITION WILL TAKE PLACE IN SEPTEMBER 2024 AT SZCZUR GALLERY (POZNAN, POLAND).

We are happy to share the results of the open call!

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After careful consideration and discussion, we chose the artworks of seven artists. In our opinion, they will build a critical dialogue about the migration experience and complicated emotions caused by this background.

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Meet the artists Anastasia Shneps-Shneppe, Anna Rotaenko, Dasha Buben, Kristina Valenkova, Panida Petchara, Zhanna Gladko, Natalia Grezina

 

Thank you all who applied for the open call, for your support and interest in our initiative. We read a lot of moving stories and appreciate your effort to help people with your art and activity. We received 73 applications and it is sad to acknowledge that most of them talked about migration as a forced experience because of the wars and political instability. So many people left their homes because of dictatorship, censorship, and life-threatening. We wish all of us the strength to face and fight this reality and continue our practice no matter what. 

 

We are looking forward to creating a space for supporting each other and freely speaking about complicated subjects.

CURATORS

AGNIESZKA TOPOLSKA

Based In Poznań, Poland, visual artist and curator. She works mainly with sculptures and objects. Her inspirations come from cultural contexts and observations of social constructs and phenomena. She is interested in postfeminist discourses, ecological studies and feminist contr-catastrophe visions. She is currently affiliated with the Intermedia Department at the University of Arts in Poznan. She is a co-founder of the Szczur Gallery in Poznań.

LIZA VESELOVA


Poznań-based mixed-media artist, originally from Moscow, Russia. In her artistic practice, Liza explores the concepts of beauty, gender, sexuality and body politics in modern society. Based on her experience in the beauty industry through feminist optics, she refers to patriarchal stereotypes and superstitions. Mostly, she works with sculpture and objects, but she also does performances and video as well. She often uses materials referring to the beauty industry (glitter, cosmetic masks, false nails), and pink, referring to gender stereotypes.

NATALIA GREZINA

Rotterdam-based mixed-media artist, originally from Crimea, Ukraine. Natalia creates soft sculptures, objects, and installations, using embroidery, sewing, and various artificial and natural materials. Her main topics are post-memory, the relationships between human culture and the natural environment, historical heritage and personality. In her works, Natalia often refers to the allegorical language of fairy tales and myths, as well as to archetypal cultural images.

IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS, PLEASE REACH OUT TO US VIA EMAIL INSIDEAWAITINGROOM@GMAIL.COM​

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