Karolina Culture Shop
Karolina Culture Shop
7.03-14.04.2014
PS Squared, Belfast, Irlandia Pólnocna
Curator: Maryna Tomaszewska
Curatorial assistants: Albert Jawlowski, Warsaw, Louise Younger, Belfast
Participating artists: Tymoteusz Bryndal, Stefania Kolanowska, Paula Patocka, Agata Stuchły, Robert Świerczyński, Ernest Wińczyk, Jan Wysocki.
The Karolina Shops in Northern Ireland offer products from Poland and at the same time provide support, help and networks for Polish migrants. Home is represented by food, the most needed item to survive, but also very sentimental and an easy way to feel safe, comfortable and familiar in a foreign environment. Would the same set up work for a cultural transfer? A Polish shop where the viewer encounters culture instead of groceries?
7 students from the Media Arts Faculty in Warsaw undertook answering this question by collecting 150 items that represent their country – symbolically, historically, directly. Is there such a thing like national culture in a time of global economies and regionalisation? As part of the generation that was born after the fall of the Berlin wall they take on a very different view, even that of their 15 year older lecturer and curator. In addition, each student created a personal project, a small edition item, ready to be bought, taken home and hanged on the wall. All available at the Karolina Culture Shop