#soporowska

[grazynasiedlecka]

Grymas Zwany Uśmiechem I A Grimace Called A Smile

Windowlicker Gallery, 03.08 - 31.08.2024, Warsaw, Poland

Opening: 3.08.2024, 13 - 16:30, pavillon nr 40, Nowy Bazar Różyckiego, Targowa 54, Warsaw

Artists: Andres Larraín Araneda, Katarzyna Bialik, Kornelia Bolechala, Basia Budniak, Adam Durjasz, Jakub Dziewit, Sonia Góral, Jadwiga Janowska, Amelia Jawień, Jakub Kostewicz, Wojtek Kutyła, Karolina Maliszewska, Jagoda Malanin, Jakub Pasek, Katarzyna Rogoża-Pochylska, Edyta Rybak, Wioletta Rzepa, Grażyna Siedlecka, Anna Solecka, Milena Soporowska, Aleksandra Szlęk, Justyna Warwas, Marta Życińska

Event organized by Windowlicker & Fresh From Poland

Download the printable zine HERE.

Curator: Grażyna Siedlecka in collaboration with Milena Soporowska

It is commonly believed that laughter is an expression of happiness; laughter is health and a recipe for a fulfilled life. But is that really true?

Few philosophers have written about humor; and when they have, they have rarely spoken positively about it. Plato complained that laughter weakens self-control, and he traced its source to malice. Aristotle considered every joke to be a form of mockery. The Bible also criticizes hilarity: “Woe to you who laugh now, for you shall mourn and weep” (Luke 6:25). John Chrysostom wrote: “Laughter and jesting do not seem to be sinful, but they lead to sin.” The superiority theory—one of the three most popular theories of the philosophy of humor, along with the relief theory and the inconsistency theory—is not sparing in its criticism: it assumes that we find something funny because we feel superior to it (Hobbes, Descartes, Scruton).

The exhibition visually explores this grim side of a smile in times of fashion for flaunting humor and hiding negative emotions.

"Sudden glory is the passion which maketh those grimaces called laughter; and is caused either by some sudden act of their own that pleaseth them; or by the apprehension of some deformed thing in another, by comparison whereof they suddenly applaud themselves."

Thomas Hobbes, "Leviathan"

The exhibition is part of Grażyna Siedlecka's long-term curatorial research on the relationship between laughter, humour and visual arts.

Graphic based on the artwork of Amelia Jawień.

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Windowlicker is an experimental exhibition space. The pavilion acts as something between a gallery and an esoteric stall, thus referring to the tradition of bazaar fortune tellers. You can drop in for an exhibition, but also for a consultation, or read various publications on esotericism, zines, and photography books, and… look at unusual tarot decks.

The name Windowlicker comes from the English idiom "window licking" (window shopping) and the French "lèche-vitrine". Loosely translated, it means “licking shop windows”, which means looking at shop windows but ultimately not buying anything.

The space is run by two creative people: Milena Soporowska (@milsopo) and Piotrek Sobiecki, who performs under the pseudonym Lotus Reaction (@lotus_reaction).

More information: 🔗https://www.instagram.com/vvindovv.licker/ 🔗https://milsopo.tumblr.com/…/windowlicker-exhibition…

[folkmania]

Anna Soporowska aka SOPOROWSKA Photography

[milsopo]

Bielieve in the sprit | exhibition at Windowlicker

Believe in the spirit exhibition aims to capture the invisible concept of ghost. Guests artists explore the theme of a phantom in various mediums including painting, graphics, photography, poetry and field recording.

Who or what is a ghost? Some believed that it is a material manifestation of the deceased made of ectoplasm, others that it was only the effect of a suggestion projected onto reality. Today, the spirit is combined with the concept of the avatar, strengthening its ties with rapidly developing technology. The ghost can also act as a metaphor, a way to process your fears and longings.

This figure wandering among the pages of history, suspended between life and death, still fascinates artists, scientists and tricksters.

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I invited people who create in various media and from various backgrounds to explore the broadly understood concept of “spirit".

The materialized phantoms are:

❦Lena Achtelik

❦Katarzyna Dębska

❦Natalia Godek

❦Zofia Kalemba

❦Karolina Maliszewska

❦Iga Mroziak

❦Kasia Rysiak

❦Maja Sadel

❦Milena Soporowska

❦Joanna Suppan

❦Karolina Szwed

❦Julianna Wińczyk

❦Community of Parallel Dreams - collective

❦Curator: Milena Soporowska

[milenasoporowska]

a)Alien Hand Syndrome / from Schadenfreude series / 2017 [Domestic Violence project]

[freshfrompoland]

by Milena Soporowska

The Receptionist: Girls Just wanna have fun, 2017

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[lamella923924]

Wystawa: Za dużo życia Artyści: Paweł Dudziak, Kamil I, Kasper Lecnim, Agnieszka Piotrowska-Jaworek, Milena Soporowska, Paweł Stasiewicz Muzyczna interpretacja lamelli (Daniel Durlak): 21:00-22:00 Kurator: Milena Soporowska (Karina Sternum) 29.04.2017, 13:00-22:00 LAW (Supervisor: Kamil I) wydarzenie fb

Coś bardzo chce żyć. I nie wie dlaczego. Narzuca się więc. Bez uzasadnienia. Rozpycha brutalnie. Lacan zwał to coś „lamellą” – namolną, nieskończenie plastyczną substancją. Niepodzielnym, niezniszczalnym, nieśmiertelnym organem bez organizmu. Instinct de vie. „Niesamowitym (unheimlich) nadmiarem życia” niepotrzebującym tych, którzy żyją. Życiem samym w sobie - tak mocnym i nieustępliwym, że aż obcym i odrażajacym dla jego posiadaczy. „Nie martwym impulsem”, który trwa i trwa, jak opisuje go Žižek. Nadwyżką, przerostem, przybierającą przeróżne kształty niebezpieczną superatą. Pewne jedynie jest to, że to jest. Rozproszone.

Wydarzenia dodatkowe:  muzyczna interpretacja lamelli by Daniel Durlak

Gest może prowadzić do czegoś konkretnego jak np. podpisanie ważnego dokumentu. Ale, nawet o tym nie wiedząc, wykonujemy w ciągu dnia niezliczoną ilość ruchów pozornie niepotrzebnych. Ten zapas, te tiki, pozbawione celu lapsusy  - to być może przez nie właśnie sączy się życie samo w sobie. Bezzadaniowe. Czyste. Czymże w tym kontekście jest taniec?

Od 21 do 22 zapraszamy na muzyczną interpretację pojęcia lamelli by Daniel Durlak. Poruszenia, szczególnie te duchowe, mile widziane.

[theories-of]

Milena Soporowska

[showmeyourufo]

UFO VISUAL LAB is now open!

Yay! We managed to collect funds for our show and it’s now opened! Come and see it in Galeria Szara Kamienica in Krakow <3

Here is the list of selected artists exhibited in the #showmeyourufo section:

Alarza Jennifer AvTes Zuleika Charnas Pablo Darocha Dominik Eldagsen Boris Franik Paweł Godfryd Tomasz Grabowska Agata Jankowiak Tobiasz Juszczak Adrian Juszczak Ania Kalinowski Adam Klimkowicz Patryk Konkiewicz Mikołaj Kot Klaudia Lachowicz Marcin Macleaan Wayne Matląg Przemysław Milani Olivia Mlost Jakub Motz Mateusz Olechnowski Andrzej Osetek Ania Pawłowska Aleksandra Pawłowska Joanna Penc Sylwia Petrenko Maria Pijoan Adrian Poniatowska Natalia Rucińska Agata Sajur Małgorzata Samosionek Olga Soporowska Milena Maria Straniero Nicko Szajnecka Aleksandra Śleszyński Kamil Winek Witold Wysopał Olga Zespół Filmowy Potencja

Thank you!

Our #showmeyourufo project is still on! We now think, how to take an exhibition to another countries and make a proper publication.

So stay tuned!

[oramicspl]

Mix no. 46 by Ku Ku

Adam Skrzypkowski is a DJ and a former author of a website about electronic music called Lineout, he co-organizes a series of parties with unusual dance music "Badanie Sluchu" ("Hearing Test"). In his sets, his fascination with Japanese ambient and old-school video game soundtracks blends with his love for grime and dancehall. "In this mix I wanted to explore the myriad ways in which the sensation of speed can be experienced. Chaotic, brutal, swift or breezy - being fast can mean so many things. Also I was just playing through some Sonic the Hedgehog games."

Photography by Milena Soporowska

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1. Norio Nakagata, Yuriko Keino - Baraduke 2. Chris Mosdell - Psalm Of Motion 3. Tusken Raiders - Foifol 4. Sunareht - Bât. C 5. Thomas Brinkmann - Ikaria 6. Ken Ishii - Butter Bump 7. North Manc Beds - Via Alt 8. SK U KNO - Vast Mute (2_2) 9. Shizuo - Concrete Jungle 10. Darren Mitchell - The Lost Land 11. Somebody From Rotterdam - Atmos 12. Cosmic Explorer - Galaxy M87 (Nucleus Mix) 13. The Sidewinder - Psycho-Accoustic Dub 14. Normal Nada - Nai Na Chi (Na China) 15. Kenny Ken - Athlete Kings 16. Sim Hutchins - Dumped by Pirate Radio (object blue remix) 17. Color Plus - Horny Bass 18. Intentionally Cold - LAMBETH LENGS (VCL MIX) 19. Harlem Spartans - Call Me A Spartan 20. Autechre - bnc Castl 21. Ku Ku - Nightopians

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Assessment 2 Inspiration - 

Artists like Milena Soporowska have used a printer scanner to produce almost haunting photos of the body. I like the effect the scanner has given these photographs and i believe it would work well with my concept of the human and its environment. My first experiment will look into taking some shots on the scanner to see where i want to take my ideas. 

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#SHOWMEYOURUFO

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group photography installation

curated by Grażyna Siedlecka

#SHOWMEYOURUFO is an international online and offline research that looks into the collective consciousness and exploring the visual representation of UFO phenomena. 

This is an ongoing project and it will not end at the time of Krakow exhibition - everyone is welcome to join. Read here how to participate. 

Selected from submissions works will be presented as a special section of the UFO Visual Lab in Krakow in a form of a mosaic on the wall. 

Artists:

Jennifer Alarza

Zuleika AvTes

Pablo Charnas

Dominik Darocha

Boris Eldagsen

Paweł Franik

Tomasz Gotfryd

Agata Grabowska

Tobiasz Jankowiak

Adrian Jaszczak

Ania Juszczak

Adam Kalinowski

Patryk Klimkowicz

Mikołaj Konkiewicz

Klaudia Kot

Marcin Lachowicz

Wayne Macleaan

Przemysław Matląg

Olivia Milani

Jakub Mlost

Mateusz Motz

Andrzej Olechnowski

Ania Osetek

Aleksandra Pawłowska

Joanna Pawlowska

Sylwia Penc

Maria Petrenko

Adrian Pijoan

Natalia Poniatowska

Agata Rucińska

Małgorzata Sajur

Olga Samosionek

Milena Maria Soporowska

Nicko Straniero

Aleksandra Szajnecka

Kamil Śleszyński

Witold Winek

Olga Wysopal

Zespół Filmowy Potencja

[mihalinazp]

Oto kilka wskazówek i przykład jak urządzić miejsce do zabaw dla dzieci w ogrodzie.

Zaplanowanie i wydzieleni obszaru w naszym ogrodzie. Jeśli są to jeszcze małe dzieci, najlepiej, aby było zlokalizowane w miejscu dobrze widocznym z domu np. z kuchni albo z salonu i nieco oddalone od tarasu. Istotne jest, aby miejsce to nie było w miejscu gdzie występuje dużo nasłonecznienie, jeśli jednak nie mamy wyboru należy pomyśleć o nasadzeniu chociaż jednego drzewa, które w miarę wzrostu da swoim pokrojem cień.

Urządzenia zabawowe w przydomowym ogródku warto dostosować do wieku jak i zainteresowań dzieci. Jeśli są to już starsze dzieci, które interesują się sportem wystarczy im trawnik z np. bramką lun koszem. Jeśli są to małe dzieci warto pomyśleć o piaskownicy lub huśtawce. Latem często szukamy ochłody dla siebie jak i dla naszych dzieci. Najlepszym sposobem jest woda a co dalej za tym idzie basen. Budowa basenu jest nadal dużym kosztem, ale warto pomyśleć o miejscu gdzie utwardzimy teren i wydzielimy go od trawnika, tak aby sezonowo ustawiać np dmuchany basen.

Jeśli planujemy kupienie nowych mebli tarasowych do naszego ogrodu, warto pomyśleć także o meblach dla dzieci. Wystarczy kilka krzesełek, które ciekawym kształtek i kolorystyką zachęcą dzieci do przebywania i zabawy w miejscu dla nich przeznaczonym.

Rośliny zlokalizowane blisko placu zabaw powinny być bezpieczne. Rośliny te nie powinny mieć kolców ani owoców, gdyż niektóre z nich mogą być szkodliwe dla zdrowia.

Autor zdjęć: SOPOROWSKA Photography

Producent mebli ze zdjęć: VONDOM

Producent lamp: PLUST

Jak urządzić miejsce do zabaw dla dzieci w ogrodzie? Oto kilka wskazówek i przykład jak urządzić miejsce do zabaw dla dzieci w ogrodzie. Zaplanowanie i wydzieleni obszaru w naszym ogrodzie.

[milsopo]

Warsaw Preview is an open-air festival that takes place in various outdoor urban spaces. In a picnic-like atmosphere artists from various fields present their works accompanied by live music.

Warsaw Preview creates an open space for artists to present their works outdoors, using the topography of a natural setting placed in urban areas. They can take part in a open call or just join spontaneously the day of the event.

Main organizer: Heart of Man Gallery | Serce Exhib. 

Team: Eryka Głos, Kamil Trzeci, Michalina Sablik and Milena Soporowska.

First edition took place in 2019 in the Sculpture Park in the neighbourhood of Królikarnia - Xawery Dunikowski Museum of Sculpture, part of The National Museum in Warsaw.

By locating our events in open spaces, art could be experienced spontaneously by passersby. It created an opportunity for a nonconventional, natural conversations outside of a traditional snobbish white-cube space. 

You can read interview about the first edition of Warsaw Preview in Going.MORE lifestyle online magazine HERE.

Check out interview in Radio Kapitał, where we discuss the main premise of Warsaw Preview. You can listen to it HERE.

The second edition took place during the pandemic in 2020 in the park of Open Jazdów area in Warsaw - community of the Warsaw settlement of wooden Finnish houses, offering a social, cultural and ecological public program.

In 2020 Warsaw Preview was featured in BLOK MAGAZINE,  an online, English-language contemporary art journal that focuses on the region that is known as Central and Eastern Europe, as part of Polish Highlights of 2020.

You can read the whole article HERE.

❝Warsaw Preview, an open-air festival that took place during the first weekend in September, featured 30+ artists and DJ’s (in collaboration with Radio Kapital). In the midst of a pandemic and political upheaval, the atmosphere was vibrant and connective, with artists showing and sometimes selling works, re-introducing a very open, non-pretentious, human-centered approach to contemporary practices.❞

Our second event was focused on small sculpture forms. Art presentation was accompanied by music played by DJs and artists associated with Radio Kapitał - first community radio in Poland.

You can listen to some of their works HERE.

You can listen to the artists describing their sculptures with words and music in a synethesis radio interviews conducted by Milena Soporowska in Radio Kapitał HERE.

Artists taking part in radio show: Øleg and Kaśka, Paulina Jołda, Jan Możdżyński i Kuba Mozolewski.

Media coverage of second edition of Warsaw Preview in Open Jazdów included two articles in Going.MORE online magazine.

🍀Interview with co-ordinators

🍀Interviews with artists taking part and photo coverage of their works

Documentation: Milena Soporowska

[milenasoporowska]

TRIALED BY WATER* / 2023 / ONGOING [excerpt]

Project carried out as part of Kolektyw Hydroza / Hydroza Collective first exhibition Who will be the last to cry? at Foto Pracownia Wschodnia in Warsaw, Poland. 

As a child, I loved being in the water. My parents often took me to the seaside. Water has become a symbol of relaxation for me. During the most difficult period of the pandemic, I was drawn to the river, the lake. I always associate water with rest. With a warm bath after a long, tiring day. With cleansing.

Through water, as a symbol of purification in the Christian religion, witches were verified. This was so-called water ordeal. The accused - bound, naked or in underwear - was thrown into the nearest water reservoir. Drowning was a proof of innocence, resurfacing resulted in torture and a trial that usually ended up at the stake.

The first water ordeals took place in ancient Mesopotamia. In medieval Europe, they were used in criminal and civil trials. This peculiar method based on ignorance of the physical laws, resurfaced in the early modern times during witch hunts. The church banned it at the beginning of 13th century, but city courts often used it in witchcraft trials. It was mostly used before the trial even started, as a kind of hint for a judge.

Although many clergymen and jurists pointed out the fallibility and brutality of the water ordeal, for the average person, it was unequivocal evidence of guilt.

I'd like to get some of that water back. Maybe a little bit for myself, maybe a little bit for the defendants. Through a series of (al)chemical procedures involving photographic emulsion, wandering through images from childhood, tarot or art history, I return to its meditative properties.

* The term comes from the files of the trial of Dorota Piotrowa, known as the Kashubian, accused of practicing witchcraft. The woman was tested by water. Thrice bathed, three times she came to the surface. As a result, she was imprisoned and tortured, source: AP w Bydgoszczy, AmN, ref. no. 131. Protocols of trials conducted against witches before the jury court of Nowe, 1689-1747.

Related links:

Hydroza Collective instagram 

2023 Water is an alchemical substance | music mix | Czeczota radio show at Radio Kapitał 

Music lecture on water as alchemical substance inspired by txt of Astrida Neimanis Hydrofeminism: Or, On Becoming a Body of Water.

[freshfrompoland]

PROJECT: ‘GUEST ROOMS’ by MILENA SOPOROWSKA

GUEST ROOMS [2012-2013]

“Unheimlich is the name for everything that ought to have remained hidden and secret… and has become visible.”

This project was for me a way to explore space once alive, today transformed into a museum showpiece accessible for the visitors only through the sense of sight. Processed into images, they separate themselves from their original function, becoming a radical version of obje trouvé. Introducing amorphous item; alien, yet based on the coloristic reference, I wanted to deconstruct the seeming unity of the interiors and question their title “hospitality”. For me, the encounter of what is defined and familiar with what is disturbing and cognitively unstable, constitutes a specifically fascinating issue.

Guest Rooms also creates the initial impression of the reality in the photographed scene - the moment of integration of paint and the room. The theme of the project is therefore human perception, and anxiety triggered by its defects.

It is a collision of two different stylistics’/aesthetics’ as well. The contrast between them, at the same time, composes a possibility of creating a dialogue. Historical interiors [baroque, renaissance, mannerist etc.] are being collated with abstract shapes that recall informal, action painting or tachisme.

Technique: mixed-media: re-photographed postcards with acrylic sculpture-like forms, edition: 6+2AP, size: 10,5x14,8 cm

Milena Natalia Soporowska [1989, Warsaw] – finished History of Art [main faculty] at College of Inter-area Individual Humanistic and Social Studies [University of Warsaw, 2014], where she also studied Psychology and Cultural Studies. Studied photography at The Society of Polish Art Photographers [Warsaw, 2012, graduated with distinction] and Academy of Photography [Warsaw, 2013]. Laureate of the 5th edition of ShowOFF contest for young talents at XI Photomonth in Cracow [2013, project: Guest Rooms, curator: Bownik]. Co-founder of curatorial project ABBILD. Curator and co-organizer of several group exhibitions: URBILD/ABBILD [gallery lokal_30, Warsaw, 2013], The World Picture [under the auspices of Anda Rottenberg, Branicki Palace, Warsaw, 2014], UN/HEIMLICH [gallery Starter, Warsaw, 2014]. Scholarship holder at Summer Academy in Traunkirchen [2012] and Salzburg International Academy of Fine Arts [2014]. Took part in various group shows. Writes about art, especially photography. Develops her concepts as a curatorand writer, as well as an artist. Writes her master’s thesis about ekphrasis.

http://cargocollective.com/karina_sternum

http://karina-sternum.tumblr.com

Photographs:

1. Milena Soporowska, La Salle à Manger, CHÀTEAU D’ANSOUIS, Vaucluse [Dining room]

2. Milena Soporowska, Grünes Eckkabinett, Staatliche Museen Heidecksburg, Rudolstadt  [Green Corner Cabinet]

3. Milena Soporowska, Arbeitsraum der sowjetischen Delegtion, Cecilienhof  [Study of the Soviet Delegation]

4. Milena Soporowska, Gabinet Pisarza, Muzeum Henryka Sienkiewicza, OBLĘGOREK  [Writer’s Cabinet]

Photographs courtesy of the artist

[lamella923924]

LAMELLA LOVER STARTER PACK

„Lamella nie istnieje, ona narzuca swoje istnienie (…).”

Slavoj Žižek - Kłopoty z realnym, czyli Lacan ogląda Obcego

 Nagłe swędzenie, gdzieś w okolicach dziąsła.

Uczucie nader dziwaczne. Nie wiadomo za bardzo – przyjemne to czy irytujące…

Lekkie muskanie pod wargą.

Bać się?

Parę nerwowych ruchów.  Ślizga się palec po wilgotnej tkance.

Jak to podrapać?

Małe zgrubienie. Jakby twarda żyła.

Po co mi to?

Gdzieś tam, gdzie wszystko, co potrzebne zdążyło już urosnąć?

 Lamella, w rozumieniu Lacana, to bezlitosny naddatek, nadgorliwa superata, nachalna nadwyżka czegoś, czego raczej brak wydaje się niebezpieczny – życia. Życie uosobione przez ten podejrzany organ to egzystencja najprostsza, a więc najradykalniejsza w swej postaci. Życie poza żyjącymi – czysty impuls. Pre-seksualny, pre-podmiotowy, pre-symboliczny.

W jej kleistym ciele, jak opisuje ją francuski psychoanalityk, rozpuszczają się wszystkie możliwe indywidualności. I to ona właśnie staje się punktem wyjścia dla projektu „lamella923924”, który za swe zadanie stawia sobie analizę lacanowskiego nadmiaru w przeróżnych jego, często niejednoznacznych, odsłonach – od libido czy pragnienia aż po groźbę (nie)śmiertelności.

To skromne przedsięwzięcie otwiera open call $UPERATA oraz wystawa „Za dużo życia” organizowana przez Milenę Soporowską we współpracy z LAW – Laboratorium Antropologii Wizualnej w Warszawie (Kamil I). 

Wybrana/e w ramach $UPERATY praca/prace pokazane zostaną na wystawie "Za dużo życia" w LAW, w Warszawie. -->Paweł Dudziak, Kamil I, Milena Soporowska, Paweł Stasiewicz

Więcej informacji: superata / grupa superata 

 W celu bliższego zapoznania się z lamellą zapraszam do lektury:

Jacques Lacan, Book XI: The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis [fragmenty]

Slavoj Žižek - Troubles with the Real: Lacan as a viewer of Alien [po polsku dostępny w ramach Lacan. Przewodnik Krytyki Politycznej]

Slavoj Žižek, On David Lynch