BOOK LAUNCH WITH MAŁGORZATA MIRGA-TAS UND JOANNA WARSZA
- daadgalerie
18.09.2022 / 17:00 – 19:00
With Małgorzata Mirga-Tas
“In the life of every human being, there is a need for magic and enchantment, but not always: at certain moments, we should disenchant the world, moments, situations, negative emotions and paradigms. Selecting a few selected related to the representation of Romani people in a stereotypical and stigmatising way, I try to disenchant and demythologise them by reversing how we are being seen.”
Re-enchanting the World is a publication accompanying Małgorzata Mirga-Tas’s exhibition of the same name, currently shown in the Polish pavilion at the 59th Venice Biennale. The exhibit is Mirga-Tas’s manifesto on Roma identity and art, drawing inspiration from the Renaissance frescoes of the Palazzo Schifanoia in Ferrara and thus attempting to expand the European iconosphere and history of art with representations of Roma culture. Joanna Warsza, Pavilion co-curator speaks with Mirga-Tas, about the concepts of re-enchanting of the world, the interdependence, transnationality, cyclicity and the evolution of meanings, proposing a new narrative about the continuous cultural migration of images and mutual influences between Roma, Polish and European cultures.
Małgorzata Mirga-Tas is a Polish-Roma artist and activist, currently representing Poland at the 59. Venice Biennale. In her works, sculptures, paintings, spatial objects and large-format textiles, she addresses anti-Romani stereotypes and engages in building an affirmative iconography of Roma communities. She lives and works in Czarna Góra in Tatra mountains and is currently a DAAD fellow.
Joanna Warsza is the co-curator of the Polish Pavilion of the 59th Venice Biennale, an interdependent curator, Program Director of CuratorLab at Konstfack University of Arts in Stockholm, and an editor of more than ten publications in the fields of art, politics, the public sphere or performativity. Originally from Warsaw, she lives in Berlin.
Conversation in English
Free admission
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Photo: Daniel Rumiancew