series of printed collages commisioned by Short Stories Festival Contemporary Museum Wrocław curator: Piotr Stasiowski 2012
An attempt to discuss with a tradition of the Polish 20th century literary avantgarde with using the form of collage. Sokolnicka creates pictures anew from pieces of connotations, literary references and afterimages of a turbulent history of this realm. The 20th century has probably been the most dynamic period of development in this area, where experiment and novelty in the approach to a word has reached its crescendo. Rendition and reconstruction of these changes into a form of a collage pictures cycle is another attempt to read the history of writing. In Sokolnicka’s works a written word and its philosophical and semantic consequences have always played an important role as a cause and etymology to investigate visual culture. Her exhibition in Contemporary Museum Wrocław accompanies the 8th International Short Stories Festival.
—Piotr Stasiowski
Religion
illustration of religia poem by Anatol Stern from Ziemia na lewo volume, using a visual fragment of the poem inkjet print on archival paper, ed. 1/3, 50 x 70 cm, 2012
to the poem Rewolucja ćała with the use of fragment of it, from Nuż w bżuhu volume by Anatol Stern inkjet print on archival paper, ed. 1/3, 50 x 70 cm, 2012
Futurism was based on a concept: the concept of subconsciousness’ classicism On the basis of the introduction by A. K. Waśkiewicz to A. Stern’s Wiersze zebrane, Krakow 1986 inkjet print on archival paper, ed. 1/3, 50 x 70 cm, 2012
Młodziakowa (after “Ferdydurke” by Witold Gombrowicz) inkjet prints on archival paper, ed. 1/3 100 x 70 cm & 70 x 70 cm, 2012
Młodziak’s House
Zuta
(after “Ferdydurke” by Witold Gombrowicz) inkjet prints on archival paper, ed. 3 70 x 100 cm x 2, 2012