WGW 2025: Jan Bačynsjkyj | Joy. Garbage. Resurrection.
About the event
Joy. Death. Resurrection Jan Bačynsjkyj Polana Institute ul. St. Noakowskiego 16/35, 4th staircase, 4th floor by elevator 📅 19.09–11.10.2025 Opening of the exhibition as part of: https://warsawgalleryweekend.pl/ 📅 19–21.09.2025 🕒 Opening hours: 11:00 AM–7:00 PM The exhibition presents a series of textile objects created between 2022 and 2025 in the context of the artist's forced displacement following the invasion of Ukraine. The works were created under conditions of nomadic, temporary existence in a space of prolonged timelessness, uncertainty, and chronic crisis, stretched between different countries and contexts. The starting material became fragments of personal clothing and found pieces of everyday life, treated as carriers of memory, identity, and relationships with a lost home. The presented objects function at the intersection of sculpture, relic, and personal journal. Many of them contain traces of previous use, textual interventions, or small objects introduced as material witnesses of memory. In contrast to factual war narratives, Bačynskyj's works do not document the course of events but offer a record of the emotional substance of experience. In this intimate space, there is also joy and gratitude for the ability to endure, for preserved fragments of oneself, for the fact that the story still exists, including the material one. In a world where many have been deprived of this story, the very act of possessing it becomes an act of resistance and privilege.
