Zdrojowa,
video installation, 26’ 04”, 2024
as part of Radical Pleasures project
Artists: Veronica Bisesti, Danilo Correale, Jagoda Dobecka, Marta Krześlak
Curators: Vasco Forconi and Kasia Sobczak
Are there still temporalities, places, and rituals in our society devoted to rest, pleasure, and collective well-being? Can we trace their remnants in the institutions of the past to help design and imagine new ones? As time devoted to collective care is progressively eroded from our lives, several generations of artists have been obsessively placing it back at the core of their practices. The works in the show—all newly commissioned for the occasion— attempt to narrate this drive, offering multiple imaginaries of care while drawing from the
debris of the recent past. The project emerges from a series of ongoing collective conversations between the artists and curators around the notions of leisure, repose, labor, and pleasure, initially inspired by Sopot’s historical identity as a thermal town, traditionally devoted to the care of both body and mind. Building on this idea, the research focused on the parallel between two institutions emblematic of Italian and Polish labor history of the 20th century: the dopolavoro (post-work hangout)—Italian public or private institutions that organized workers’ recreational and cultural activities during leisure time—and the sanatorium— state-run resorts offering rest, medical treatments, and wellness therapies.
Jagoda Dobecka’s work is a homage to the ever-joyful yet slowly shifting phenomenon of sanatoriums’ entertainment and social places. The video installation Zdrojowa is a visual poetic diary capturing moments and relationships built around the space of Cafe Zdrojowa in
Długopole-Zdrój and its community.
(fragments of the press release text)
Special thanks to the owners of Cafe Zdrojowa in Długopole Zdrój: Ewa and Mirosław Krynicki, and to Anna Bronowicka, the hostess of dance evenings.
Editing: Tomáš Roček
Translation into English: Daria Saja, Juliane Foronda
photos: Jan Rusek / Goyki 3 Art Inkubator
video installation, 26’ 04”, 2024
as part of Radical Pleasures project
Artists: Veronica Bisesti, Danilo Correale, Jagoda Dobecka, Marta Krześlak
Curators: Vasco Forconi and Kasia Sobczak
Are there still temporalities, places, and rituals in our society devoted to rest, pleasure, and collective well-being? Can we trace their remnants in the institutions of the past to help design and imagine new ones? As time devoted to collective care is progressively eroded from our lives, several generations of artists have been obsessively placing it back at the core of their practices. The works in the show—all newly commissioned for the occasion— attempt to narrate this drive, offering multiple imaginaries of care while drawing from the
debris of the recent past. The project emerges from a series of ongoing collective conversations between the artists and curators around the notions of leisure, repose, labor, and pleasure, initially inspired by Sopot’s historical identity as a thermal town, traditionally devoted to the care of both body and mind. Building on this idea, the research focused on the parallel between two institutions emblematic of Italian and Polish labor history of the 20th century: the dopolavoro (post-work hangout)—Italian public or private institutions that organized workers’ recreational and cultural activities during leisure time—and the sanatorium— state-run resorts offering rest, medical treatments, and wellness therapies.
Jagoda Dobecka’s work is a homage to the ever-joyful yet slowly shifting phenomenon of sanatoriums’ entertainment and social places. The video installation Zdrojowa is a visual poetic diary capturing moments and relationships built around the space of Cafe Zdrojowa in
Długopole-Zdrój and its community.
(fragments of the press release text)
Special thanks to the owners of Cafe Zdrojowa in Długopole Zdrój: Ewa and Mirosław Krynicki, and to Anna Bronowicka, the hostess of dance evenings.
Editing: Tomáš Roček
Translation into English: Daria Saja, Juliane Foronda
photos: Jan Rusek / Goyki 3 Art Inkubator