VIOLA TYCZ. ANOREXIS – POINTS OF VIEW. MEETING WITH THE ARTIST

We would like to invite you to a meeting with artist Viola Tycz marking the opening of the next Exhibition for You. The December edition of the project has been prepared by non-professional curators aided by the museum educator and the online community, who have selected works from the Anorexis I series – dark, disturbing and thought-provoking. Viola Tycz, a Wrocław-based artist, has been exploring the impact of contemporary culture and digital technology on our lives for years. This is evident in both the subject of her artistic practice and form of her works. Anorexis I provokes questions about the role of the body in culture, about the gaze – our own as well as collective, resulting from constant observation of each other through various media; about the contradictory social demands of simultaneous asceticism and prosperity; and, finally, about appearances – are the characters in Anorexis I revealing the truth about themselves, or is it mystification intended confuse the viewer?

Discussing these multiple meanings is one of the goals of the meeting, during which the audience will have the opportunity to ask questions directly to the artist and curators.

Curators:

Marzena Okuszko is a coach and trainer of interpersonal skills, painter, poet, catcher of beautiful moments. She has graduated in Slavic Philology from the University of Warsaw; she has also studied coaching at the SWPS University of Social Sciences and Humanities and finished the Coaches’ School of the Polish Psychological Society. She is currently studying psychology at the University of Warsaw and attending a Gestalt therapy school. After many years of working as a manager in a corporation, she has decided to do what is really important to her in life.

Barbara Krupa is a retired accountant. She is passionate about dance, theatre and the performing arts in the broad sense.

Rebecca Blejfer-Weintraub is a long-time resident of Wrocław, lawyer and mother of two sons. She has spent weekends at museums since childhood, but always as a viewer – this is the first time she has had the opportunity to be on the other side, co-creating an exhibition.