Olga Anacka: Patching Femininity

Thursday 26 September – Friday 25 October 2024
Olga Anacka: Nap in the Grandma’s Room (detail) | Olga Anacka: Patching Femininity | Thursday 26 September – Friday 25 October 2024 | Limerick City Gallery | Image: Olga Anacka: Nap in the Grandma’s Room (detail) | this is a tapestry; we see head and shoulders (more or less) of a figure who is asleep, head on a pillow or cushion; black hair, black eyebrows, pale sckin, colourful top, patches of different colours behind

In Patching Femininity, artist Olga Anacka explores and challenges visual representations of femininity and the female body in Western culture.

This exhibition is part of Polish Festival 2024.

Comprising a dozen embroidered tapestries, this body of work is very personal, with images derived from the artist’s memory and family archive, juxtaposed with symbolic representations of the feminine drawn from internet searches and commonplace stereotypes.

The artist examines the subject from the perspective of a mature, migrant woman who has experienced significant social change. In an honest conversation, she questions what is expected as feminine and attempts to define her personal position.

In developing this exhibition, the artist references Polish Critical Art of the 1990s, the work of Alicja Żebrowska, Ela Jabłońska, Zbigniew Libera and Anna Baumgart. She is inspired by authors such as Catherine Blackledge and Annie Ernaux, as well as memoirs of Kazimiera Czerniec who was her great-great-aunt born circa 1890.

Further information here.

Image: Olga Anacka: Nap in the Grandma’s Room (detail)
Thursday 26 September – Friday 25 October 2024
Limerick City Gallery
Pery Square, Limerick
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