NEW ORDER
The “New Order” exhibition is a curatorial idea to juxtapose two long-term photographic projects in the gallery space, seemingly only very distant from each other.
The realization of Korean photographer Jeauk Kang, who consistently visits and photographs places/architecture affected by natural disasters and its decay, corresponds to the very bold project “Củ Chi Tunnels Restoration Report” by Michał Sita and Anna Pilawska-Sita from 2018. Artists analyze the process of conservation and contemporary changes in the meaning of an architectural monument, which is a network of guerrilla tunnels built on three levels, enabling survival at a time when life on the surface was impossible, when American bombings turned the province of Cu Chi into ashes devoid of plants, animals and people. The tunnels, expanded during the American War to the size of an underground city, were a response to the brutality of this conflict, materializing in the form of secret, tight, dark and vermin-filled corridors.
Curator: Paweł Bąkowski
Coordination: Olga Krzywiecka
Accompanying program: Gabriela Piasecka
Substantive study for identification sheet’s to architectural objects and conservation remarks to Jeauk Kang’s photos: dr hab. inż. arch. Teresa Bardzińska-Bonenberg
Graphic design of the exhibition: Agata Pietraszko
Visual identity: Hubert Kielan
This project is co-financed from the budget of the Lower Silesian Voivodeship
Jeauk Kang (1977) – artist, freelance curator and essayist, founder and director of the Suwon International Photo Festival, a platform for the international exchange of Asian photography. He is a graduate of the College of Fine Arts of Seoul National University, author of 11 books of art, had 20 personal exhibitions and participated in about 200 group exhibitions around the world. His main interest is sustainable communication with society and possible changes through art in various forms. The latest project “Art and Catastrophe” is devoted to the subject of trauma and the possibility of overcoming it through art in disaster areas in Nepal and the Philippines. Since 2007, he has been working intensively on global environmental issues as a photographer. In 2017, he published „The Planet”, a photobook that presents his entire work on environmental issues, and is now focusing on publishing a photobook of earthquake disasters recorded in China, Haiti, Nepal, Philippines, etc.
Michał Sita (1985) – documentary photographer, curator. A graduate of photography at the ITF in Opava (Czech Republic) and anthropology at the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, where he is currently working on a doctorate on social ways of using the past in contemporary Poland. He conducts research through photography. Co-author of an interdisciplinary analysis of interwar zoological photographs by Wiesław Rakowski, author of the books “Củ Chi Tunnels Restoration Report” (Photographic Publication of the Year 2020) and “History of Poland exercise book vol. 1” – a visual commentary to the ethnographic research in Murowana Goślina. Exhibition curator of Małgorzata Lebda and Rafał Siderski, Mayumi Suzuki, Jan Kurek, Wiesław Rakowski exhibitions. He was responsible for the realization of the exhibition, e.g. Martin Parr and Rimaldas Vikšraitis and Sputnik Photos. In 2020-2021, one of the curators of the 6×6 World Press Photo talent program. Author of texts about photography, permanent collaborator of the editorial office of Kultura u Podstaw.
Anna Pilawska-Sita (1989) – a certified architect at the Faculty of Architecture and Design at the University of Arts in Poznań. A graduate of the Polish School of Dendrology and Arboristry. Winner of the Maria Dokowicz Competition, honored in the Diploma of the Year competition, finalist of the Architectural Award of the Wielkopolska Region in the Young Artist 2021 category. The scholarship of the Ministry of Culture in the area of monument care allowed her to collect materials that form the basis of the book Củ Chi Tunnels Restoration Report. She worked e.g. in Germany, Vietnam, South Africa. Currently, she runs her own design studio. Member of the Association of Polish Architects and the Polish Dendrology Society. She is interested in the subject of green architecture and the impact of nature, both existing and introduced, on urban areas. She cooperates with cultural institutions, realizing projects of exhibitions oscillating around the subject of cultural and natural heritage.
16.06, 7pm
opening
17.06, 3pm
artists walk
Jeauk Kang, Michał Sita, Anna Pilawska-Sita / free entrance
24.06, 3pm
What can a musicologist say about the image?
tour with dr Robert Losiak / free entrance
1.07, 1pm
Critical heritage studies
meeting with students of Jastrzębska School of Documentary Photography / free entrance
15.07, 3pm
Jadwiga Janowska “False Flag”
meeting / free entrance
22.07, 12pm-4pm
Reworked ruins
workshops with Vinicius Libardoni / reservations are required
Photo and video: Arek Wołek
