EXHIBITION
Baltic Gallery of Contemporary Art
Centre for Creative Activities in Ustka
/ ul. Zaruskiego 1a
Agata Zbylut
Touch where you’re ashamed to
Curated by
Weronika Teplicka
Opening of the exhibition
and meeting with the artist
Centre for Creative Activities in Ustka
admission free
21.08.2024 / 5 p.m.
exhibition
10 a.m. – 6 p.m.
22.08 – 3.09.2024*
* admission to the gallery with ticket
Touch where you’re ashamed to” is a photographic project combining feminist and ecological themes. During a two-month residency at the Baltic Gallery of Contemporary Art in Słupsk, the artist intends to use the darkroom and other facilities of analogue photography to prepare a project using both the architecture of the institution itself and the seaside landscape. She is inspired by the memory of her Grandmother, who used to go to the seaside to the sanatorium dressed in a long nutria fur coat. This fur was supposed to be a symbol of luxury, although rough nutria were only a substitute for the much more expensive mink or fox. Today, they are for us above all a symbol of cruelty and evidence of how our sensitivity and perception of animals has changed over the past few decades. The result of the work will be presented at an exhibition held at the end of the residency. The artist has also planned a meeting – a lecture on self-portraiture as an issue that has been gaining in popularity since the Middle Ages and is becoming an increasingly common means of expression, also used by the artist herself.
Created with the financial assistance of the Province of Pomerania
Agata Zbylut
artist, academic, feminist, vegan, occasional curator and activist. In 1993-1999, she studied at the Institute of Culture and Visual Arts at the University of Zielona Góra (University of Zielona Góra), graduating from the Drawing and Intermedia Studio. In 2008, she defended her PhD in Applied Arts at the Faculty of Multimedia Communication at the Academy of Fine Arts in Poznań, and in 2012 she was awarded a postdoctoral degree at the State Higher School of Television and Theatre in Łódź. Between 2000 and 2005, she was a curator at the Amfilada Gallery. In 2004, she coordinated the National Programme of Culture “Signs of the Times” in the province of West Pomerania. In 2005, she was awarded the Gloria Artis Bronze Medal for Merit to Culture. In 2004, she founded the Association Zachęta Sztuki Współczesnej in Szczecin, which implemented the ministerial programme “Signs of the Times”. From 2004 to 2023, she was president of the association, which in the meantime built the Zachęta Regional Collection of Contemporary Art – the largest collection of contemporary art in western and northern Poland, and led to the establishment of Trafostacja Sztuki in Szczecin. Originator and curator of the Youth Art Festival “Przeciąg” (2007, 2009, 2011). Since 2010, she has been working at the Academy of Art in Szczecin (since 2013 as an associate professor), where she leads the Studio of Photography and Post-Artistic Activities and served as the head of the Department of Photography from 2018 to 2022. She has had over 150 solo and group exhibitions to her credit in Poland, Germany, Belarus, Ukraine, France, Croati, UK, USA.
