Alicja Rogalska’s Residency & Exhibition in Ljubljana

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'Citizens of Nowhere' by Alicja Rogalska, photo: courtesy of the City of Women Association, Ljubljana

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Over the years the City of Women has developed a range of specific characteristics that distinguish it from other such events in Slovenia and Europe. As a transdisciplinary festival, it has a rather experimental profile, welcoming artists who experiment with, blur and even cross the boundaries of genres. The Festival promotes dialogue, knowledge and lively debate among the participating artists, academics and the audience.

Alicja Rogalska is this year’s City of Women’s artist-in-residence, commissioned by the curatorial duo osborn&møller. Additionaly, a curated solo exhibition will take place in the Škuc Gallery entitled Kinds of Pressure.

Shortly after Slovenia declared independence in 1991, around twenty thousand people were left without citizenship. The Erased were deprived of their social existence. In her research, Alicja Rogalska asks how to represent an identity that was taken away. Some possible answers and performative actions from the residency will be shared during the film screening and conversation on the 4th of October at Škuc Gallery as part of the exhibition Kinds of Pressure.

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'Kinds of Pressure' by Alicja Rogalska, photo: courtesy of the City of Women Association, Ljubljana

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Kinds of Pressure looks into the past, present and future of global labour conditions under capitalism through its dehumanising effects on people and communities in hyper-local contexts. The exhibition documents numerous performative processes of participation and collaboration with workers, activists and citizens, exposing the pressure points created by precarious working conditions, the privatisation of resources and the economisation of emotions. From €25 tears, to bronzed potatoes and protest songs, Rogalska’s social sculptures are playfully subversive, tender and rebellious.

Kinds of Pressure speaks to City of Women’s 25 years of history, testing different ways of being together and performing different political realities in the here and now.

Residency:

Production: City of Women
Co-production: MGLC – International Centre of Graphic Arts, Adam Mickiewicz Institute
Commissioned by osborn&møller
Local research assistant: Olga Michalik
Assistant (video and editing): Linnea Hansander

Exhibition:

Production: City of Women
Co-production: ŠKUC Gallery, Kunstencentrum Vooruit, Adam Mickiewicz Institute
Curated by osborn&møller

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