We are cordially inviting you to attend the opening of ‘What’s between the forgotten and remembered’ Joanna Pottle’s exhibition!
The Opening will take place on 15th of Feb. 2022, 6:00 PM.
The Exhibition will be open between 16th Feb. and 1st of March 2022.
Monday-Friday (10 AM – 3:30 PM), MCSG, Rynek Główny 24, Kraków
The Exhibition encompasses multiple dimensions of meaning including the use of semantics and language within Joanna’s studio practice, existing as an integrated, yet external perspective, while reflecting her time residing in Poland since Fall of 2019, including throughout the pandemic, and how it has informed her artistic research.
Key themes which have evolved in her work can be comprised within the topic of cultural heritage and how heritage is always constructed, interpreting the present from the past.
These ideas include the abstracted visualization of shifting borders, past and present geopolitical contexts, mapping of physical, cultural, and memory-scapes, tangible and intangible heritage, identity and belonging, (re)negotiation of previously untold, unheard, or dissonant narratives, and the individual vs the collective. In many of her works, she creates what she calls “a new visual language” or “visual alphabet” in which she takes influences of Polish language, physical and cultural landscape, and collective memory with elements of the human form and depicts them through an autobiographical lens.
Much of her compositions focus on a moment of intersection and in between, residing in a space of textured ambiguity, vibrant colors, swirling shapes, contoured lines, and layered lived experiences. This exhibition highlights work completed during Joanna’s grant with the US-Polish Fulbright Commission from 2019-2020, resumed and completed in the Fall of 2021 as well as some periods in between in which her artistic research informed her grant renewal work in 2021.The Exhibition encompasses multiple dimensions of meaning including the use of semantics and language within Joanna’s studio practice, existing as an integrated, yet external perspective, while reflecting her time residing in Poland since Fall of 2019, including throughout the pandemic, and how it has informed her artistic research.
Key themes which have evolved in her work can be comprised within the topic of cultural heritage and how heritage is always constructed, interpreting the present from the past.
These ideas include the abstracted visualization of shifting borders, past and present geopolitical contexts, mapping of physical, cultural, and memory-scapes, tangible and intangible heritage, identity and belonging, (re)negotiation of previously untold, unheard, or dissonant narratives, and the individual vs the collective.
In many of her works, she creates what she calls “a new visual language” or “visual alphabet” in which she takes influences of Polish language, physical and cultural landscape, and collective memory with elements of the human form and depicts them through an autobiographical lens.
Much of her compositions focus on a moment of intersection and in between, residing in a space of textured ambiguity, vibrant colors, swirling shapes, contoured lines, and layered lived experiences.
This exhibition highlights work completed during Joanna’s grant with the US-Polish Fulbright Commission from 2019-2020, resumed and completed in the Fall of 2021 as well as some periods in between in which her artistic research informed her grant renewal work in 2021.
