ABOUT EXHIBITION

We are pleased to invite you to STALOWA Gallery for the opening of Yana Strakaza's photography exhibition "Attention for Forgiveness" and a performance by the duo Hypovolæmia, which will take place on Thursday, September 26, 2024, from 19:00-22:00.

The exhibition is open on:

Thursday 26.09 | 16.00-22.00
Friday 27.09 | 12.00-19.00
Saturday 28.09 | 12.00-17.00
Sunday 29.09 | 15.00-19.00

On 29.09 | 16.30-19.00 we also invite you to the last performance and finissage of the exhibition.

"When dusk falls, I stand at attention. With the light, I ask myself for forgiveness."

"Over_forgiveness" is an exhibition consisting of 20. self-portraits made over four years in various photographic techniques. The series explores the use of the camera man as a tool to meet each other in the nakedness of emotions and mental states. This relationship between artist and camera in the process of photographing each other was often filled with fear and violence, as the identities of photographer and model were stratified behind each interaction in one face. Quickly in the process, the theme of the body, abandoned by the person inside it, was revealed. The separation from one's own emotions and the extreme pulling back of the moment of photographing oneself to avoid looking within. The result is the creation of 20. self-portraits, made in various photographic techniques. The photos have short comments, which are another layer of meaning.

Etymology of the name "Prze_baczność":
baczyć - as "бачыць" in Belarusian means "to see".
beware - to pay attention
beware - a disciplinary order
forgiveness - to forgive oneself and others.

Performance:
I am me in front of the camera. In front of the well in which bottomless I define myself. Such a sia bland. And he sees it. He grasps every whiteness, shadows none. When I move, what will he see? Will it fit my skin on the matrix?
I hear something. A ghostly-minded shadow. I stand at attention. A cyc-cyc behind the curtain. How long do I have to wait for forgiveness?
In support of the common ritual, the performance space will feature musical elements from the priest duo Hypọvọlæmia.
Performers: Yana Strakaza, Waldemar Sorin and Aleksandra Lata.

▪️ Yana Strakaza - a multidisciplinary artist, exploring in her performance the relationship between the body and the system in which it lives. Born in Belarus, she graduated from the University of Warsaw, specializing in photography and new media, where she defended her diploma in the subject: "In search of identity - photographic self-portrait as a genre of visual art." She created the series of black-and-white self-portraits "Prze_baczność" for 4. years, exploring the use of the camera man as a tool to meet each other in the nakedness of emotions and mental states. Quickly in the process, the theme of leaving one's own body revealed itself, which the artist further explores in her work.

▪️ Hypovolæmia - a Polish-Ukrainian duo of priests, exploring their solar consciousness through the weaving of sound. Music becomes a kind of magic tool in their hands, enabling them to travel to various corners of the mind - they use it to vet and consecrate themselves, as well as to build a deeper relationship with everyday life. Each performance - which is an improvised marriage of ritual and artistic performance - is a trans-sensory journey focused on working with a specific, usually planetary energy, as well as a shared experience of the Here and Now by both observer and creator.

☀️ https://soundcloud.com/hypovolaemia-solar
☀️ https://contemplationz.bandcamp.com/album/on-equinox
☀️ https://www.youtube.com/@Hypovolaemia

*The "Attention for Forgiveness" project is part of FRINGE Warsaw 2024. The FRINGE community works in independent spaces, pop-ups and brings together projects created in small art communities. This year's edition of FRINGE Warsaw was subsidized by funds from the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage from the Fund for the Promotion of Culture.

Supporting institutions: Staromiejski Dom Kultury, Adam Mickiewicz Institute

Media partners: Bęc Zmiana, KMAG Magazine, MINT Magazine, MOST Magazine, SZUM Magazine.