Karolina Brzuzan
NOMA
The exhibition NOMA by Karolina Brzuzan is a sculptural and performative continuation of the artist's research on the book Głodowa książka kucharska (The Starvation Cookbook), currently under preparation. It will include recipes for meals cooked by people who suffered extreme hunger. The project has a clear political and economic dimension, because Brzuzan focuses on famines caused by war, genocide, corruption, collectivisation and other actions that were ideological in character. Therefore, she studies hunger as a political phenomenon, as a “weapon of mass destruction”.
Each of the works presented in this show has its origin in the history of great famines; and their minimalistic aesthetical forms correspond to the scarcity of existential resources of the starving. The transmutation of hunger-meals into artistic matter is a gesture of commemoration, while the sculptural presentation of current famine-related statistics reminds us that such events are not a thing of the past. The objects are accompanied by descriptions that present the historical and political background of each case narrated to us in the universal language of sculpture. During the exhibition, the spectators will have an opportunity to meet Mamadou Ba - a Senegalese man, who has been living in Warsaw for a couple of years and who has been invited to cooperate within NOMA. His presence in the gallery (in specific days and hours) will provide an opportunity to talk and listen to stories about the project of Karolina Brzuzan.
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- Ewa Gorządek
