documenta fifteen: Fridericianum
Part 1 of the photo tour through documenta fifteen. 18 June - 25 September 2022, Kassel, Germany. Artistic Direction: ruangrupa. 67 participants.
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(* 1978 Zakopane, Poland. Lives in Czarna Góra, Poland.)
From the "Out of Egypt" series I–V, 2021
Tapestry, mixed media
Polish-Romani multidisciplinary artist, educator, and activist Małgorzata Mirga-Tas’ artistic work addresses anti-Romani stereotypes and engages in building an affirmative iconography of Roma communities. She mainly depicts women in their everyday life: their relationships and alliances, and shared activities. Her vibrant ornamental textile collages are created from the wardrobes of the people depicted, becoming literal carriers of micro- and macro-histories, and ones that are closely tied to the body.
In her series of monumental textile collages Out of Egypt Mirga-Tas takes the etchings by seventeenth-century printmaker Jacques Callot known as La vie des Egyptiens [Life of the Egyptians]—and, therefore, the entire European iconographic tradition of presenting the Roma—as her vantage point.
(From a wall text in the exhibition)
Part of the group exhibition One Day We Shall Celebrate Again: RomaMoMA, comprising artworks dispersed across the Fridericianum. A contribution by OFF-Biennale Budapest, in the frame of lumbung interlokal.
Venue: Fridericianum
© Photos: Haupt & Binder, Universes in Universe
Part 1 of the photo tour through documenta fifteen. 18 June - 25 September 2022, Kassel, Germany. Artistic Direction: ruangrupa. 67 participants.