THE GUIDED TOUR IN THE EXHIBITION "THE DARK ARTS" WITH THE WRITER OLGA DRENDA

On 22nd of April at 2 p.m. we invite you to a guided tour of the exhibition "The Dark Arts: Aleksandra Waliszewska and the Symbolism from the East and North" with the writer Olga Drenda.

Aleksandra Waliszewska's works bring to the museum and gallery space experiences usually delegated to popular culture to deal with: the uncanny, the scary, the exploration of frightful fantasy. Often, these dimensions are treated as a somehow "parallel stream" of culture, unrelated to the art circuit. Waliszewska's skill and firm relationship with established painting traditions allows us to face the uncanny in all its aspects: the roots in centuries-old texts of culture, the long life of myth and symbol, the untamed terrains of individual and collective imaginations, and last but not least, putting the 'fun' in 'funeral'. It will be, on many levels, an encounter with ambivalence. 

Olga Drenda – anthropologist, author, culture writer and translator. Guest lecturer at the SWPS in Warsaw, University of Gdansk, Universitat Wien and Universitat Graz. Author of the page Duchologia (http://facebook.com/duchologia), dedicated to the spectres of the late 1980s and early 1990s. Columnist for “Tygodnik Powszechny” weekly.