Exhibition: "After Jedwabne"
Zofia Lipecka's exhibition "After Jedwabne" is a reaction to Jan Tomasz Grosss 2001 book Neighbours, and will be showing at the Zacheta National Gallery of Art from the 8th of March until the 18th of May. The exhibition includes a presentation of video-installations presenting several faces showing their reactions to a reading of text from Gross's book, which tells of the killing of Jews by Poles in Poland during World War II, in a tragic event known as the Jedwabne pogrom or Jedwabne massacre. Through the exhibition, the spectators surrounded by the projections themselves become a part of the installation and are forced to immerse themselves in the subject matter. The exhibition is accompanied by a catalogue with texts by Philippe Piguet and Elzbieta Janicka (in Polish, English, and French).