Exhibition duration: October 15 – November 14, 2024
Vernissage: October 15, 2024, 6:00 PM

What is a woman? What does she think about, assuming she is capable of reasoning at all? Since ancient times, rather than seeking answers to these questions from women themselves, men have invented various responses, thereby diminishing the social role of women. In our culture, literature has been a source of shared fantasies, but also of prejudices and fears. Interestingly, due to the systematically weakened position of female authors, most of the images we remember have been described by men, and for some reason, women with negative traits seemed more intriguing to them. So how would these stories sound if they were rewritten? What would happen if fictional heroines were freed from their imposed characters? Magdalena Moskwa boldly reverses the direction of previous reflection, pondering what could actually be found in a woman’s mind and soul if one looked directly inside.
Aleksandra Pietrzak

Magdalena Moskwa – an artist working at the intersection of various arts – painting, photography, textiles, and design. She graduated from the Władysław Strzemiński Academy of Fine Arts in Łódź, completing her studies in the Decorative Printing Studio in 1996. She was the recipient of the Gwarancje Kultury award in 2015 in the Visual Arts category and was honored with the Jan Cybis Award in 2020. Her works can be found in both private and institutional collections: the Museum of Art in Łódź, the National Museum in Warsaw, Zachęta – National Gallery of Art in Warsaw, the Municipal Art Gallery in Łódź, the Central Museum of Textiles in Łódź, and the Zachęta Regional Art Collection in Szczecin. For years, the artist has consistently explored themes of portraiture, the body, its fragments, pushing the boundaries of taboo and intimacy.
This project is funded by the budget of the City of Poznań.