Kjærlighet = løsning på globale problemer, ikke konkurranse. Journey to the East ved Arsenal Gallery.

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THE JOURNEY TO THE EAST




Because of the Polish Presidency of the EU Council the Arsenal Gallery in Bialystok is organizing an exhibition titled “The Journey to the East” . Poland, along with Sweden, is the initiator of Eastern Partnership project, therefore we invite artists from countries participating in it - Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova, and Ukraine – as well as artists from Poland.



We do not want to group the works in nationality pigeonholes; however, at the same time we do not pretend that the issues of ethnicity and nationality are invisible. Young political systems and post-communist heritage still influence art in many countries. Artistic activity is connected not only to artist’s personal resources - artistic schools, institutions supporting the artists’ work and the existence of artistic circles and presence of art critics and curators play an important role as well. These are important issues, which were presented to us in virtually every country we visited. And finally, artists make statements concerning only the topics pertaining to them and their lives


Edwin Bendyk prophesizes, that the solution to various global problems is the creation of interpersonal relations based on love, not competition, hierarchy or domination. We are interested in love, which transgresses the notion of relation between two people. We seek positive emotions, which create bonds between people all over the world – bonds that are an alternative to government authority and economic capital.



We want to ask the artists what role they think these emotions play in post-communist society and whether building new social capital on interpersonal relations is a utopia or perhaps it can be realized.



We see our project as an open situation, creating various modes of participation and interpretation – from watching and listening to discussion, active participation and writing. We will gather objects, organize meetings, discussions, lectures, workshops, performances and installations in public space.


The artists we invited are:


Vahram Aghasyan


Rashad Alakbarov


Ruben Arevshatyan


Babi Badalov


Samvel Baghdasaryan


Alicja Bielawska


Anatoly Belov


Bouillon Group


CHINGIZ


Anna Chkolnikova


Lado Darakhvelidze


Kuba Dąbrowski


Veaceslav Druta


Tatiana Fiodorova


Arman Grigoryan


Nicolas Grospierre


Armine Hovhannisyan


Orkhan Huseynov


Elżbieta Jabłońska


Dominik Jałowiński


Alevtina Kakhidze


Yaroslava-Maria Khomenko


Tigran Khachatryan


Aleksander Komarov


Maxim Kuzmenko


Volodymyr Kuznetsov


Anna Molska


Marina Naprushkina


Dumitru Oboroc


Joanna Rajkowska


Stefan Rusu


Elene Rakviashvili


Nino Sekhniashvili


Sergey Shabohin


Sabina Shikhlinskaya


Jakub Szczęsny


Sophia Tabatadze


TanzLaboratorium


Stas Volyazlovsky


Oleg Yushko




Project concept:

Anna Lazar, Monika Szewczyk



Curator:

Monika Szewczyk




Contributing curators:

Anna Łazar

Marianna Hovhannisyan

Magda Guruli

Lena Prents

Stefan Rusu




Exhibition design:

Robert Rumas



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