About the project:
In the exhibition, the highway – a road with strictly defined parameters, with precisely calculated angles of turns – is a labyrinth. It becomes a portal transporting to the convoluted past: to the scorching summer in Lower Silesia in the late fifties, an exceptionally cold winter of 1945, the Third Reich, the Polish People’s Republic, moments of geopolitical change, far-away events, and the people whom it connected. What does the cracked highway concrete remember, which in the exhibition is both a metaphor and a genuine object? How quickly does the grass grow, and do the same butterfly species as seventy years ago fly over the highway now? The exhibition takes us on a journey, which is the destination in itself.
About the author:
Agata Ciastoń – an independent curator, researcher, and author, doctor of cultural studies. For years, she has been working with cultural institutions, educational establishments, and publishers. She came up with, coordinated, and curated collective exhibitions, including “Poetry and performance. The Eastern European perspective” and “ »Photography« Monthly 1953-1974”, as well as many solo exhibitions. She also fulfilled the role of curator during international art residencies. In her work, she is mostly interested in the broad topic of borders and territories. In her projects, the themes of polysemy of the landscape and humanity in relation to the world of animals, plants, and objects appear recurrently. In the summer of 2024, her book, “In the Middle Lane, the Grass Was Tall in the Summer”, was published with Wydawnictwo Warstwy.
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