Trigger warning
Nosna Gallery
2021
The
experience of peasant origin is shared by most of the inhabitants of
our country and yet this narrative has been marginilised
in the history
of our nation. It is a story of subordination,
violence, fear, poverty and humiliation of generations of peasants.
In recent years, many attempts have been made to reclaim this
heritage and for it to be acknowledged and taken into account in
mainstream Polish history. (…) Agata Jarosławiec tries to
connect with our ancestral past, by discovering the traces
of it imprinted in her body – she looks for this lost
narrative in her stoop, withdrawal and embarrassment. According
to her there is a capacity for redemption in art and she demonstrates
this by embracing serfdom crosses, forging her anger in granite,
experimenting with the form attributed to high culture. With her body
she is trying to create a new story about herself and her origin.
Dorota
Majkowska-Szajer, curator
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