"It hurts when I laugh"
Bownik, Karolina Brzozowska, Aneta Grzeszykowska, Aleksandra Hojczyk, Rozalia Jaz, Tomasz Lazar, Igor Omulecki, Witek Orski, Martyna Pasternak, Ul Pazniak, Zuzanna Piontke, Irmina Rusicka, Łukasz Skąpski, Wiktoria Walendzik, Marlena Węgrzanowska, Agata Zbylut
curator: Daria Grabowska
"It Hurts Me When I Laugh" is an exhibition presenting the artistic activities of lecturers and students of the Department of Photography at the Academy of Art in Szczecin. The works shown at BWA Warszawa outline themes that the academy continuously promotes, many times using young, as yet uneducated students. Among the labeled works of lecturers, which touch on topics such as nature, queer, activism, feminism, the students' works take different paths: they are a commentary on the work of lecturers, sometimes an amusing anecdote about the education system, and finally become individual works. Rightly, studio or departmental shows face criticism relating to the master/mistress/student/student relationship. These relationships are reproached for the lack of permission for the free creativity of students, the imposition by professors of their vision of the latest art, the inscription of studio activities into the currently popular trends of the Polish art world, and so on. Paradoxically, what is condoned, and what is also welcomed, are works commenting on this ratio of things, works about academism in general, which within the university walls get away with grassroots, quasi-anarchist attacks on the educational system. As a result, it neither chills nor warms anyone. Because if you can't gas in the hallway, brick in the glass, what's left is a chuckle in the works. And it is this strategy - anecdote woven into painting, photo, object and more - that is something that characterizes the art of the young. Perhaps laughter is needed with most academic work. To disguise in a joke a critical remark against a professor, a particular art trend or just an academic exhibition. To show one of its finalists under the auspices of an art competition, although - unfortunately - not the winner. Anyway, it may be funny on the level of a single parry, but the Warsaw exhibition can still be put on the resume - artistic and curatorial.
Daria Grabowska
Agata Zbylut, Pańcia, 2018
Wiktoria Walendzik, Piesek, 2019
Zuzanna Piontke, Pokusa, 2019
Wiktoria Walendzik, Czarny wilczurek i szary wilczurek, 2018
Kasper Lecnim
Irmina Rusicka
"It hurts when I laugh"
Bownik, Karolina Brzozowska, Aneta Grzeszykowska, Aleksandra Hojczyk, Rozalia Jaz, Tomasz Lazar, Igor Omulecki, Witek Orski, Martyna Pasternak, Ul Pazniak, Zuzanna Piontke, Irmina Rusicka, Łukasz Skąpski, Wiktoria Walendzik, Marlena Węgrzanowska, Agata Zbylut
curator: Daria Grabowska
"It Hurts Me When I Laugh" is an exhibition presenting the artistic activities of lecturers and students of the Department of Photography at the Academy of Art in Szczecin. The works shown at BWA Warszawa outline themes that the academy continuously promotes, many times using young, as yet uneducated students. Among the labeled works of lecturers, which touch on topics such as nature, queer, activism, feminism, the students' works take different paths: they are a commentary on the work of lecturers, sometimes an amusing anecdote about the education system, and finally become individual works. Rightly, studio or departmental shows face criticism relating to the master/mistress/student/student relationship. These relationships are reproached for the lack of permission for the free creativity of students, the imposition by professors of their vision of the latest art, the inscription of studio activities into the currently popular trends of the Polish art world, and so on. Paradoxically, what is condoned, and what is also welcomed, are works commenting on this ratio of things, works about academism in general, which within the university walls get away with grassroots, quasi-anarchist attacks on the educational system. As a result, it neither chills nor warms anyone. Because if you can't gas in the hallway, brick in the glass, what's left is a chuckle in the works. And it is this strategy - anecdote woven into painting, photo, object and more - that is something that characterizes the art of the young. Perhaps laughter is needed with most academic work. To disguise in a joke a critical remark against a professor, a particular art trend or just an academic exhibition. To show one of its finalists under the auspices of an art competition, although - unfortunately - not the winner. Anyway, it may be funny on the level of a single parry, but the Warsaw exhibition can still be put on the resume - artistic and curatorial.
Daria Grabowska
Agata Zbylut, Pańcia, 2018
Wiktoria Walendzik, Piesek, 2019
Zuzanna Piontke, Pokusa, 2019
Wiktoria Walendzik, Czarny wilczurek i szary wilczurek, 2018
Kasper Lecnim
Irmina Rusicka