In the eyes of other-than-human beings, we human-visitors may be many things. We may be a friend or a foe, we may be their potential owners, caregivers, but also oppressors. We may seem bizarre or stupid; we may also be simply a source of desire, of curiosity, or of a cringe. Or we may be of no immediate interest to them, which for some people would probably be the scariest.
In Something Soft, Something Strange, Something Scary, the artist Zuza Golińska speculates on the idea of "intimate publicness", understood after feminist theorist Lauren Berlant as a moment in which a broad historical experience becomes intimately common. By bringing bodies, objects, and ideas into particular dependencies, her exhibition aims at becoming a site for posthuman intimate publicness, investigating social dynamics which are at play in the context of the exhibition.
Golińska works with abstract forms in relation to social and physical spaces, often utilising post-industrial materials, and their methods of production. Her installations, sculptures, and environments refer to the broadly understood public sphere. She is interested in the relationship between the body, architecture, and affect, developing an artistic language that is contextually grounded, fuses depth and intuition, thinking and feeling.
For her first solo exhibition in Sopot she has developed new work in collaboration with the writer Dominika Dymińska and the curator Mirela Baciak.