NEST

Artists: Krzysztof Białowicz, Dorota Chilińska, Martyna Jastrzębska, Katarzyna Józefowicz, Grzegorz Klaman, Anna Kola, Diana Rönnberg, Kordian Rönnberg, Arkadiusz Soroka, Marian Stępak, Tomasz Wlaźlak, Iwona Zając

Base: I, you, he, she , it, we, you, they

Superstructure: an outside sphere – a family, a house, an inside sphere – ego + alter ego + id

an emotional and intellectual baggage of direct and indirect experience that we accumulate in ourselves (each of us is their own nest, in which something/someone is constantly nesting) warmth, smell, fight, mum, culture, closeness, retreat, route, shelter, sense of safety, family ties, intricate construction, environment, surroundings, security, thallus, soil, synergy, Lot – Gallery at Vistula, kitchen, cull, asylum, home, return, uterus, habitat, ecotope, wasps, hatchling, stork, security, preservation, beginning, home, siblings, feeding, meticulousness, structure, care, Bogna, stork, chimney, hatchling, offspring, feather, bench, process, stigma, descendant, shelter, a hiding place of a very delicate and fragile make-up that needs to be constantly maintained, pallet, hellhole, lair, roof, coronet, community, constraint, settling down, security.

 

“Unless one likes complexity one cannot feel at home in the twenty-first century.”[1]

“Can the significance of existence be depleted? Assuming that existence is a value (and this is the assumption I make), even though it can be a curse, it does not change a thing when I ask: can anyone annihilate the value of this curse?”[2]

The eponymous Nest was made, in different ways, by the artists who represent two academic centres in Poland: the Academy of Fine Arts in Gdańsk and the Faculty of Fine Arts in Toruń. The intimate statements, first written down, then visualized, drag the viewers in THEIR nests, more or less metaphorical, at times intensely literal, or ambiguous. In this case, the nest is a synonym of three words articulated by each of the artists engaged in the exhibition. They built their nests for themselves and for others.