The newly-formed Przypływ gallery opens its second exhibition at Gdynia’s iconic Bankowiec on 19 October. And the Forests Are Forever Singing is a presentation of recent works by artist Magdalena Peli.
“Today more than ever in the history of mankind, we live in a reality of excess and constant information overload. Also, or perhaps above all, visual. Even beautiful, relevant or shocking images cannot hold our attention for long,” –says exhibition curator Agata Abramowicz.
Magdalena Pela therefore moves against the current and searches for those trivial effects of human presence that are most likely to be overlooked. For the artist’s works are inspired by the signs we intentionally leave behind in the form of inscriptions on walls, internet memes or letters carved into the bark of trees. What takes us by seconds, Pela freezes on canvas using noble techniques.
“I use hand embroidery in my work. I embroider tags, inscriptions from walls, trees, memes – content that the streets and the internet are full of. I devote an inadequate and perverse amount of time to them. Something that was meant to exist for a moment is fixed and mobilised on canvas. I have chosen a tool that is at the other end of the axis of visual possibility from marker or spray. What is important to me is the timeliness of the works and the idea that maybe they will become a sign of the times in which we live” – explains the artist.
In her works, Pela talks about ourselves. By copying human records in an almost mantric rhythm over the canvas, she allows them to last a long time. In doing so, she takes up the battle against one of our greatest fears – the passing of time. “She asks the question – what is important to us, what do we want to remember and preserve? Peli’s works show, in a perverse way, the transience and impermanence of what we leave behind, because in the eternal rush and excess can anything still be remembered?” – asks Abramowicz.
The opening of ‘And the Forests Are Forever Singing’ will take place on 19 October from 6:00 ~ 9:00 p.m. The exhibition will include paintings, fabric and a dedicated Przypływ Gallery space. The exhibition will run until 19 January 2024 and will be on view on Wednesdays, Thursdays and Fridays from 14:00 ~ 18:00, Saturdays 10:00 ~ 14:00 and during individual guided tours by telephone or email appointment.
Exhibition open from 19/10/24 to 19/01/25
wednesday – Friday 14:00 ~ 18:00
saturday 10:00 ~ 14:00
Free entry
3 Maja 27-31 / m.30
(cage III, intercom 30)
photos: Ola Mac
source: press materials
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