Poczęcie / Conception

 

 

 

 

Article in Gazeta Wyborcza 

A group exhibition Poczęcie in Warsaw’s new Prześwit Gallery. Prześwit means involving the viewer once again in the process of valuing art through a joint practice of sensual and intellectual reception of the work. It is December, the month that highlights woman as a trusting and courageous parent, and the act of conception and birth becomes the subject of collective reflection and celebration. The exhibition Conception, however, departs from the Christmas tradition, remaining only in its aura. It is the result of the personal experience of giving birth to a daughter, which brought about questions about the reality of the female body, the sense of one’s own existence, external obligations and internal callings, about the power of sexual energy, fertility, about union, the act of creation, the question of the beginning, about creation.

The cycle of exhibitions Conception begins with a yearly formula focusing on the figure of the mother, the act of creation and the creative act connected with sexuality. This year’s Conception is an exhibition of female Pantocratorists whose work, like the word “conception”, touches upon the areas of spirituality, myth, religion, ritual, sexuality and also fairy-tale. The latter field is highlighted when thinking of the exhibition as a form of celebration of birth, a meeting of female artists whose works contain wisdom that is a gift for a new existence and enables the shaping of a new social reality. An extension of the main exhibition Poczęcie is the event by creators of Prześwit, which is part of the theme and at the same time a continuation of the cyclical event Inner States showing the birth of a community of artists and the transformation of a place together with the attitudes of the artists who create it.

Katarzyna Kliszewska

Artists participating in the exhibition: Anna Baumgart, Beata Ewa Białecka, Agnieszka Brzeżańska, Barbara Falender, Natalia Hirsz, Anna Królikiewicz, Janina Myronova, Magdalena Moskwa, Sylwia Rams, Diana Rönnberg, Katarzyna Swinarska, Agata Zbylut.
The artists of Prześwit: Ewa Ampulska, Paulina Babicka, Nastazja Babska-Kozak, Igor Dobrowolski, Hubert Dolinkiewicz, Raphaël Gaudin Kamila Kamińska, Katarzyna Kowal, Katarzyna Kowalska, Natalia Kozarzewska, Sylwia Ozimek, Paweł Pałkus, Patrycja Serweta, Filip Syczyński, Klaudia Szot, Aleksandra Śmietana, Irma Tylor, Olga Zaremba.