Within the framework of In Polonia, cioè dove? (In Poland… that is, where?) – a project dedicated to investigating Poland’s contemporary art scene – the Polish Institute in Rome and the Pastificio Cerere Foundation present the exhibition The Dream of Warsaw, curated by Gabi Scardi, held from 29 May to 31 July 2014 at the Foundation’s spaces.
The exhibition is the first event in the series In Polonia, cioè dove?, conceived by Ania Jagiello, Director of the contemporary art program at the Polish Institute, and by Marcello Smarrelli, Artistic Director of the Pastificio Cerere Foundation.
The title The Dream of Warsaw recalls Czeslaw Niemen’s homonymous song, as well as the 2005 film by Artur Zmijewski included in the exhibition, and points to the central theme of the project: a reflection on the city of Warsaw and its transformations.
The exhibition presents works by ten Polish artists – Miroslaw Balka, Janicka & Wilczyk, Agnieszka Kalinowska, Paulina Olowska, Aleksandra Polisiewicz, Katarzyna Przezwanska, Konrad Pustola, Joanna Rajkowska, Aleksandra Wsilkowska e Artur Żmijewski – whose pieces explore the visible and hidden realities of Warsaw: a city that today appears complex, fragmentary, diversified, and contradictory, but laden with an extraordinary transformative potential.
The project is accompanied by a program of talks, held at the MAXXI museum, that further explore the themes opened up by the exhibition.
