'Thirty to Tomorrow' (Wpół do jutra) is a temporary group exhibition created by Robert Kuśmirowski in collaboration with curators Magdalena Ujma-Gawlik and Kamil Kuitkowski, with the participation of artists Marek Chlanda, Andrzej Dudek Dürer, Krzysztof Leon Dziemaszkiewicz, Jan Gryka, Mikołaj Smoczyński, Maciej Świeszewski and Daniel Zagórski. It directly relates to the current instalment of the Cricoteka's permanent exhibition 'Tadeusz Kantor - Spectres,' which is devoted to the subject of memory and past trauma. 'Thirty to Tomorrow' brings these issues into the present times: it touches upon the issue of the disintegration of a general, universal vision of culture. It focuses on individual fears, nourished by people living here and now. The artists confront their disbelief not only in a good future, but in any future at all. This doubt stems from their fresh experience of a pandemic and impending climate catastrophe. What is also crucial is the situation of exhausting the cultural paradigm based on the concept of unlimited progress and economic growth. Such development is reaching its end, and the fragility of the world is becoming particularly painful. Thus the title, which doesn't quite work in English, but describes our present moment on the eve of destruction in terms of minutes and hours - 'wpół do jutra,' half-past today and thirty minutes to tomorrow.
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Venue
Open 11:00-19:00. Closed Mon.Oct 142021
- May 292022