Their Preferences, Whims and Appetites Merged into One Identical Freedom
About the event
Their Preferences, Whims and Appetites Merged into One Identical Freedom
Adam Nehring, Katarzyna Wyszkowska
February 6 — March 28, 2026
Galeria Promocyjna, Staromiejski Dom Kultury
Opening: February 6, 2026, 6 p.m.
"It is becoming increasingly difficult to shake off the impression that our physical reality plays a subordinate role to what can be said about it or how it can be sold. Artists Katarzyna Wyszkowska and Adam Nehring have chosen to explore this insight. They have sought inspiration from French sociologists Luc Boltanski and Arnaud Esquerre in their book Enrichment, where they point out that Western economies have become increasingly dependent on the economics of enrichment. In this model, the price of goods does not derive from their physical properties, but from the narrative that enriches them. (...) While following Wyszkowska and Nehring we can trace the transition from an attempt to create first-person stories to an approach in which narratives about people are written by themselves, as if from the third person perspective of an average and universal reader-narrator. The proposition contained in Enrichment will help you organise the key observations, such as ‘the main resource of the enrichment economy is the creation and development of differences and identities’. Identity should be understood here in two ways: as an awareness of who one is and as sameness."
Ida Dziublewska, Gabi Skrzypczak
fragment of the exhibition text
Curators' team:
- Ida Dziublewska
- Gabi Skrzypczak
Graphic identification:
- Martyna Modzelewska
Co-ordinated by:
- Zuzanna Andruszko
- Kinga Cieplińska
Organised by:
- Galeria Promocyjna
- Staromiejski Dom Kultury
City: Warsaw
