Artist Talk
HOLD ME TIGHT
with MALGORZATA MARKIEWICZ
Meetingpoint: < rotor >, Volksgartenstraße 6A, 8020 Graz
Thursday, October 24th 2024, 18:00

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During her residency in Graz, the artist Malgorzata Markiewicz worked on a tapestry, titled Hold me tight, part of a series of collages based on second hand tapestries, a popular form of formerly modest decoration (often used in Poland). The artist adds extra stories and meanings, creates pieces that can be read like riddles or rebuses. Deconstructing and recomposing, adding embroidery and text—in Hold me tight she included poems by the Kenyan writer Diana Sule.

Furthermore, the artist will talk about two recent works,. Firstly the Iron Curtain for the Juliusz Slowacki Theatre in Krakow, a Curtain of Women dedicated to 130 women important for Krakow, thus celebrating the 130th anniversary of the theatre. Secondly the Pimoa Chthulu, a spider's web, a perfomative object with eight arms, eight legs, each cocoon-like, hollow, which can be slipped in and crawled around, an imaginary interpersonal network, built in tension between the gestures of two, three or many people, in establishing new ecologies of coexistence.

Malgorzata Markiewicz is a Krakow-based artist currently spending a one-month residency in Graz in the frame of the Styria-Artist-in-Residence (St.A.i.R.) programme by the Styrian Government.

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