KRES / BORDERLANDS

An exhibition and an accompanying programme at Galeria WY in Łódź and the Kunstverein am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz.

"Borderlands" presents three artistic positions that engage with the image and experience of the forest in its complex, symbolic and material form. Filmmaker, visual artist and activist Kasia Hertz from Podlasie documents the Białowieża Forest in her video images. Sculptor and activist Anna Siekierska will present an artefact relating to the history of the auroch cow (Turzyca). The forest in Zofia nierodzińska's large-format paintings is a witness to the history of violence.

In the dominant Western perspective, Eastern Europe is depicted as a 'sad forest', a land almost untouched by human hand — a territory with an ever-changing surface, vulnerable and exposed to top-down definition in the form of colonisation, occupation and/or extraction.