Opening: 30.11.2023, 7PM
Exhibiton: 01.12.2023–29.02.2024
Place: TRAFO Trafostacja Sztuki w Szczecinie, Świętego Ducha 4 st., 70-205 Szczecin, Poland
Exploring the relationship between digesting and dreaming, The Sea of Cheese challenges Europe’s contemporary, future or parallel political imagination
The title of the exhibition has been inspired by a para-scientific theory according to which eating certain types of cheese can intensify our dreaming experience. The exhibition thus focuses on the impact of food on the process of creative thinking, both from an individual and collective perspectives. What makes dreams exist independently of our declarations and worldviews, is there a culinary logic behind dreams and nightmares?
The artists from Belarus, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Lithuania, Poland and Ukraine create a dreamy scenario in which historical narratives, cultural norms and political events are presented as myths, phantasms or figures from nightmares. Sweet and sour national identities and myths concerning political power bubble up in the regional, Eastern European melting pot, seasoned with a pinch of witchcraft, queerness and toadstool cap potion. The opening of the exhibition will be accompanied by St. Andrew’s Day performative evening, with performances by Barbora Kleinhamplova and Jan Matýsek, wax fortune-telling prepared by Gideon Horváth (Your desire is an overripe fruit), songs by Maria Lukačová and a tyromantic session by Gregor Rozański.
Artists: Kateryna Aliinyk, Adrian Altman, Karolina Gołębiowska, Hubert Gromny, Gideon Horvath, Jakub Jansa, Barbora Kleinhamplová, Eva Koťátková, Marie Lukačova, Angelina Mass, Jan Matýsek, Zsolt Miklósvölgyi & Dominika Trapp, Ola Nenko, Ala Savashevich, Anastasia Sosunova, Dominika Olszowy, Rafał Żarski
Curators: Tomek Pawłowski-Jarmołajew, Piotr Sikora
Source: TRAFO
Kateryna Aliinyk, Rotten Beauty, 2023; Beetroot Boy1, 2023