Opening: January 22nd, 7:00pm
Project URSUS<—> TABAKALERA by Jaśmina Wójcik comments on the idea of twin towns and cultural exchange built on it. It attempts to present histories of people and places, to create the actual relations between people from two countries with different history, that in some aspects might find similarities and mutual inspirations. The departure point for the artist are histories of the former tractor factory Ursus in Warsaw and the former tobacco factory – Tabakalera in Donostia, which is also the venue of the project.
Jaśmina Wójcik, born 1983, works with people, on the verge of art and social activism, aiming for social change, bringing back memory of people and places, pointing out ecological problems (for example the exhibition Hiding people among people without contact with nature leads to perversions at the Zachęta Project Room in 2012). Author of video films, drawings, projects in the city space and interactive installations. In 2008 she graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, where she’s now a lecturer. She lives and works in Warsaw.
Project URSUS<—> TABAKALERA by Jaśmina Wójcik comments on the idea of twin towns and cultural exchange built on it.