Welcome
Galeria Zderzak, in Krakow, Poland is one of the first 'commercial' galleries to grow outside of the state funded system of patronage in Poland.
Invited to exhibit there in October 2002, and while researching the gallery through its archives, we found video evidence that the director Marta Tarabula had been welcoming visitors and introducing artists at every exhibition opening since 1985.
We edited every welcome together, and this video loop played for the duration of the exhibition endlessly introducing artists, and welcoming each visitor.
At the projects inauguration, we in turn were introduced and thanked, and the audience welcomed by Marta.
Welcome makes explicit the exchange of obligations between a gallerist, the artists invited to exhibit, and an audience. Although in this instance, we declined the invitation of being promoted by the gallery, and instead Welcome uses the opportunity to assist gallery Zderzak through representing the gallerist Marta Tarabula.
Welcome
Galeria Zderzak, in Krakow, Poland is one of the first 'commercial' galleries to grow outside of the state funded system of patronage in Poland.
Invited to exhibit there in October 2002, and while researching the gallery through its archives, we found video evidence that the director Marta Tarabula had been welcoming visitors and introducing artists at every exhibition opening since 1985.
We edited every welcome together, and this video loop played for the duration of the exhibition endlessly introducing artists, and welcoming each visitor.
At the projects inauguration, we in turn were introduced and thanked, and the audience welcomed by Marta.
Welcome makes explicit the exchange of obligations between a gallerist, the artists invited to exhibit, and an audience. Although in this instance, we declined the invitation of being promoted by the gallery, and instead Welcome uses the opportunity to assist gallery Zderzak through representing the gallerist Marta Tarabula.