14.10 – 31.10. 2022
The slogan of the 6th edition of the Festival "Interior Landscapes". addresses the surrounding changes resulting from the climate, political and pandemic crises. It focuses attention on those creative attitudes that turn "inward" and explore issues related to memory, trauma, isolation, individual and social imagination, among others. The events of the 6th edition of the Wielkopolska Festival of Photography are divided into Main Program i Regional Program.
As part of the Main Program There will be 4 exhibitions in Poznań, as well as projects selected through an open call entitled "Playground". The exhibition program will be expanded with accompanying workshops, lectures, seminars and meetings to deepen the thematic area of "interior landscapes."
The exhibitions of the Main Program weave a multithreaded story around the Festival's slogan. Karolina Ćwik, depicting intimate spaces of everyday life in frames from the series "Don't look at me," reveals her ambivalent experiences of being a woman, mother and artist at the same time. It's a story about moving on the edge of one's own bodily and mental boundaries. On the other hand, Marta Normington's exhibition "Cosmic Navel and Other Stories" centers around the mythical center - the center of all things. Referring simultaneously to mythology and history, the artist tells of nomadic wanderings in search of a relationship with the world and attempts to anchor herself in reality. She also asks the question about the consequences of the authoritarian gesture of pointing to the "navel of the world."
"To be Developed" by Jaroslaw Klups is a journey on the trail of afterimages of experiences and emotions accompanying the exploration of photography. The artist introduces the viewer to the world of tangled objects, sounds and smells, revealing to him the fascinating spaces of the development of amateur photography in the 70s and 80s. Meanwhile, Karolina Wojtas and Maciej Cholewa undertook a rescue mission of space conquest, investigating "The effect of vacuum on living organisms." Their expedition, however, is doomed to failure in advance. Since, using all the technologies and theories available on Earth, we can't stop the coming catastrophe, will we be able to survive thanks to them on another planet?
Regional Program was created as a result of cooperation with cultural institutions, photographers and photographers, theorists and theoreticians, as well as art groups operating throughout Greater Poland. The rich and varied program includes a number of exhibitions and events that will take place in: Gniezno, Kalisz, Kleszczewo, Konin, Krotoszyn, Koszuty, Międzychód, Mosina, Nowy Tomyśl, Poznań, Piła, Pleszewo, Słupca, Szamotuły, Śrem, Trzcianka, Trzemeszno, Wągrowiec and Zbąszyń.
The Ireneusz Zjeżdżałka Wielkopolska Festival of Photography, held since 2012, is the province's largest photographic review showing the condition of regional photography, the forms of involvement of male and female artists in the life of local communities and documenting the changes taking place in the region and contemporary reality.
The festival is co-created by Kamila Kobierzynska, Julia Stachura (content assistance), Agata Grzych (curator of "Playground"), Agnieszka Zdziabek (visual identification).
Detailed program - wbp.poznan.pl/photography/wff/6wff-krajobrazy-wewnetrzne
Fotografia Quarterly took this event under its patronage
1 Komentarzy
Waldemar Sliwczynski
What is puzzling is the lack of the Września section in the regional program. Tentatively I would like to remind you that the patron of the Festival, namely Ireneusz Zjeżdżałka, lived and worked in this very city. Next year will mark 15 years since Erik's death.