Małgorzata Markiewicz, piece from House, Home, Domesticity, photo: organizer's press material
Małgorzata Markiewicz will present her story woven into cloth - about being at home in homelessness - and her clothing line for women at her exhibit hosted by Botkyrka Konsthall.
Inspired by the work of the Romanian writer Aglaji Veteranyi and by stories of women in prison, Małgorzata Markiewicz created her project House, Home, Domesticity. It includes a story sewn into cloth about finding things related to a home while facing homelessness.
This story gave the meaning and the title to her new show, which deals with fleeting feelings, rituals and habits, and with seeing home as a building or a state of mind. Botkyrka Konsthall will be showing the artists’ archetypal drawings on the shape of a house, which are her attempt at re-definition. Adjacent to the drawings will be her subjective story about what a home is. Markiewicz explores themes of how “he, she, it” create houses based on cultural, racial, sexual and political affiliations.
Małgorzata Markiewicz, piece from House, Home, Domesticity, photo: organizer's press material
Also on display will be the clothing line Take Me and Wear Me Outside prepared by the artist in collaboration with Botkyrka Kvinnoresurscenter. The organisation concerns itself with getting women active who have spent years doing unpaid work in the home. Members joined Markiewicz’s project and helped to sew the collection, which will be sold over the course of the exhibit. During the workshop in Botkyrka, issues were raised about fair pay for seamstresses and the distribution of profits.
The exhibition will be part of the project Fittja Open.
Małgorzata Markiewicz (born 1979) lives and works in Kraków. From March until May 2013 she was funded by a scholarship through the Botkyra Residence Program for her work in Stockholm’s Fittja district. A PhD graduate of the sculpture program at the University of Fine Arts in Kraków, she was awarded scholarships from the Ministry of Culture in 2004 and the National Heritage in 2011. Markiewicz was a resident at the Factory of Art & Design (Copenhagen, 2011), the Spaces Gallery (Cleveland, 2007) and the Cable Factory (Helsinki, 2006). Her work involves the creation of objects, sculpture, photographs and installations.
While her works are lined with ambivalence, they create affects of pleasure. Markiewicz continues to explore themes she took interest in during her doctoral program. She analyses the concepts of the home and domesticity by considering how architectural, social, economic and cultural changes have progressed throughout Europe. She participated in a seminar in 2013 for doctoral students at the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) in Stockholm that focused on the interaction between philosophy and architecture. Her show at Botkyrka Konsthall involves issues discussed at this seminar.
Markiewicz has participated in solo and group exhibitions in Poland and abroad, with shows at Bunkier Sztuki Gallery of Contemporary Art in Kraków, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Kraków, the Centre for Contemporary Art at Ujazdowski Castle in Warsaw, Piekary Gallery, the Berardo Museum in Lisbon, Stefania Miscetti Studio in Rome, and the National Gallery of Art in Sopot, Poland. The work of Markiewicz can be found in collections held at the CCB in Lisbon, Arsenał Gallery in Białystok, BWA Gallery in Bielsko-Biała, and in private collections in Poland and abroad.
Translation: SMG 13/09/2013
See also:
Artist's website