'justyna kuklo'
An installation by the young Gdansk artist Justyna Kuklo is placed in an intimate corner by itself. “My grandmothers table” consists of a low round table with an embroidered table-cloth. “Circles” are made in the old handicraft bobbin lace, or pillow lace, from which detailed and intricate patterns can be done. Extremely time-consuming work.
The pink nuances of the embroidered pattern are visible through the transparent glass tea-cups which are turned upside down over these parts of the table-cloth, as if to catch and keep them in place. The lace-parts are outside of the cups. The embroidered motifs are the secrets and intimate talks in between women of different generations getting together and sharing thoughts over a cup of tea or some handicraft. If you look closer you see embroidered genitals, a uterus and other sexual facts of life.
The installation is part of the exhibition Laznia Damska, The Women’s bathhouse, which started on March 8th at Contemporary Art Centre Laznia in Gdansk and is one of their ongoing exhibitions. This spacious art gallery was a bathhouse from the beginning. Every year CCA Laznia presents several women artists from the Gdansk-area starting off at International Women's Day. In Poland it is a festive day and the celebration of economic, political and social achievements of women is vivid. History, presence and future in one day. Justyna Kuklo compress the time by speaking to her grandmother and mother, and giving both them and other women a tribute to their silent homework.
Justyna Kuklo started at the Academy of Fine Arts in Gdansk in the Department of Painting and this is her graduation work for Academie Royale des Beaux-Arts de Bruxelles last year. During summer 2008 she participated in the performance of the artists’ group Plaj when taking part of “Neighbours”. Dancers and painters co-operated in creating new space, time and absolute presence. See photos and text under “Utställningar/Neighbours – Grannar - Sasiedzi” on this website.
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