The Final Showdown in Zachęta BY Karol SienkiewiczArt The exhibition revolves around a few unpleasant stories with art taking centre stage in all of them. Macuga mixed the documents from the Gallery’s archive with her own works and interventions
PHOTOGRAPHY, STILLS & GNASH:Unidentified Family Photos BY Chris NiedenthalArt It is so fascinating to look through old family photos and photo albums, and see how we and those before us once looked. Such photographs show fashion, hairstyles and many other interesting details
In Defense of Mothers BY Bartosz ŻurawieckiFilm If films display a lenient and understanding attitude towards fathers, it is because the directors are usually men themselves
Talk BY Rafał MarszałekFilm ‘Erratum’ is a call, a knock, asking for a chance to talk in an atomised world
An Emo Opera BY Adriana ProdeusFilm The aging parents’ emotional incompetence makes you want to reeducate them, but what they really need is forgiveness. The cult of immaturity, which they have fallen victim to, at times turns into patriarchal rigidity and hysteria
Poland Suffers FromStockholm Syndrome Talk with Paweł SalaFilm Director of ‘Mother Teresa of Cats’ talks about family ties and lies
An Empty Bed BY Rafał MarszałekFilm The author demands the audience’s absolute concentration. A moment of inattention would deal a deadly blow to the viewer’s perception of The Forest. And, to a certain extent, to the ambition of Dumała himself
Regaining feeling BY Joanna Tokarska-BakirLiterature In her excellent, provocative book ‘Proszę bardzo’ (Here You Go) Anda Rottenberg rejects the rules of the game the Polish symbolic establishment so far abided by
