{"id":29767,"date":"2025-04-14T13:48:33","date_gmt":"2025-04-14T11:48:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ggm.gda.pl\/?p=29767"},"modified":"2025-07-05T12:32:34","modified_gmt":"2025-07-05T10:32:34","slug":"endless","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ggm.gda.pl\/en\/29767\/endless\/","title":{"rendered":"Endless"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Venue: <\/strong>G\u00fcnter Grass Gallery in Gda\u0144sk<\/span><\/p>

Dates: <\/strong>April 25 \u2013 June 1, 2025<\/span><\/p>

Opening:<\/strong> 25.04.2025, 19.00 \/ at 7 p.m.
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Artist:<\/strong> Julita W\u00f3jcik<\/span><\/p>

Exhibition opening hours:<\/strong> Tuesday-Sunday, 12.00 PM – 7.00 PM<\/span><\/p>

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Our civilisation is built on an endless cycle of consuming, collecting and discarding. Endless<\/em>, Julita W\u00f3jcik\u2019s new exhibition, is a story of excess \u2013 but also of reclamation, revival of traditional craft and collaboration. Departing from the conventions of a traditional exhibition, this project unfolds as a living presentation of collective activity. W\u00f3jcik will lead an unusual workshop and choreograph a performance in which participants themselves become part of the process: acting as the moving parts of a giant human loom.<\/p>

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Over the course of the exhibition, a \u201cliving manufacture\u201d will emerge, reviving the historical notion of collective, manual production of textiles. Etymologically, manufacture<\/em> comes from the Latin manus<\/em> (hand) and factura<\/em> (making), pointing to the very essence of craftsmanship: the act of making by hand. Archaeological evidence suggests that that textile weaving dates back as far as 7000 BC. Over time, small handlooms gave way to factory machines. In W\u00f3jcik\u2019s project, the tradition of textile craft and human cooperation takes centre stage once more. A group of participants will become a functioning workshop, literally embodying the structure of a loom \u2013 some as warp, some as weft, and one solo performer darting there and back as the shuttle.<\/p>

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The materials used in this large-scale weaving will include long-forgotten bedsheets, faded curtains, worn tablecloths, offcuts from home dressmaking, and bolts of outdated Finnish camouflage. W\u00f3jcik offers these remnants a second life, proposing a form of creative recycling reminiscent of the rag rugs woven by our grandmothers. The resulting tapestry \u2013 a vibrant, abstract collage of colours and patterns \u2013 is also a weaving of memories, as most of the fabrics have been donated or inherited from parents, grandparents or friends. The final piece, a monumental carpet, is to become a fusion of these shared stories, where each contributor may recognise threads of their own past. This fleeting recycling of excessive possessions and inherited relics will be staged within Gda\u0144sk City Gallery.<\/p>

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W\u00f3jcik makes no promises that the collective creation will endure as a permanent exhibit. After the exhibition, it may undergo further transformation. However, as previous iterations of her work reveal, such pieces often find surprising afterlives. The first of these projects, created during a workshop accompanying the exhibition The Splendour of Textiles<\/em> in 2013 at Warsaw\u2019s Zach\u0119ta – National Gallery of Art, ultimately entered the collection of the Central Museum of Textiles in \u0141\u00f3d\u017a. Another piece, a carpet made in 2019 during workshops in Br\u00e4kne-Hoby, Ronneby and S\u00f6lvesborg \u2013 towns in southern Sweden known for their enduring weaving traditions \u2013 found its home at the Region Blekinge Culture Department in Karlskrona. A third piece, created during the 2024 Br\u00e5djupa dance festival in Karlshamn, is on view at the Kulturcentrum Ronneby Konsthall.<\/p>

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At Gda\u0144sk City Gallery, Endless<\/em> reaffirms a trademark element of W\u00f3jcik\u2019s artistic practice: a strong emphasis on shared labour. Much like her iconic 2001 performance Peeling Potatoes<\/em> at the Zach\u0119ta – National Gallery of Art, this will not be a display of finished works. Instead, the exhibition will focus on a community and a shared act of creation. What is exhibited, ultimately, is the fleeting encounter of a group of people and their temporary collaboration.<\/p>

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Julita W\u00f3jcik graduated from the Faculty of Sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Gda\u0144sk in 1997. Her diploma work was supervised by Professor Franciszek Dusze\u0144ko, who is commemorated nationally as one of the 2025 culture patrons in the year marking the centenary of his birth. Dusze\u0144ko developed his monumental works in situ with large teams of collaborators. He spent a year in Treblinka while creating the Memorial to the Victims of the Extermination Camp. This exhibition serves as a tribute to his legacy, as W\u00f3jcik will collaborate with a broad group of participants to create a single, vibrant object.<\/p>

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Academy of Fine Arts in Gda\u0144sk<\/p>

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