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April 13 \u2013 May 24, 2024<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Opening Reception: Saturday, April 13th | 7:00 – 9:00 PM
Artist Talk: Sunday, April 14th |11:00 AM -1:00 PM with Bartek Remisko, curator
Guided Tour: Thursday, April 18th | 6:00 – 8:00 PM
Limit is the limit: projectarians againsta(t)te capitalizm l Sunday, April 28th, 11:00 AM -1:00 PM
Family Sunday: May 19th | 3:00 PM – 5:00 PM
Field Trips<\/a>: May 13 \u2013 17th<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Open Source Gallery<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

306 17th Street, Brooklyn<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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„(…) The connections Monika Dro\u017cy\u0144ska makes with words within many different languages are a dexterous game of text and symbols on fabric, an adept study of transformative change for a better world. Polish curator Bartek Remisko, speaking about the work, said, \u201cEmbroidery can be about threads that bring us together to create social change.\u201d Remisko\u2019s insight speaks to Dro\u017cy\u0144ska\u2019s focus on embroidery techniques in contemporary art and textiles in public spaces to further the collective conversation and play with conventional expectations.(…)” — Resistance Embroiderer <\/a><\/strong>by Michele Jaslow<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Polish Cultural Institute New York together with Open Source Gallery is pleased to present Latte Capitalizm: Letters as a Source of Resistance<\/em>, a project by Monika Dro\u017cy\u0144ska.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For many years, Dro\u017cy\u0144ska has used hand embroidery on fabric as historical, political, and social commentary exploring feminist, ecological, economic, and migratory and refugee issues in Europe. Her work deconstructs and expands the boundaries of words and language by creating inter-language bridges between seemingly unconnected grammars.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dro\u017cy\u0144ska\u2019s ongoing research is concentrated on migratory movements and the resulting linguistic multiculturalism. Utilizing letters, words, and slogans from various languages including Russian, Polish, and Ukrainian, Dro\u017cy\u0144ska\u2019s embroideries speak to the politics of identity, memory, power structures, and various forms of resistance. Her works often utilize phonetically similar words that are found in more than one language and banned letters as discursive ornaments, political symbols which stitch cloth into historical-political-mystical essays.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The phrase Latte Capitalizm<\/em> combines Polish post-war historical orthography with a contemporary Russian pro-war propaganda symbol to transform the term \u201clate capitalism.\u201d Following the Yalta Conference in 1945, the north-eastern parts of modern Poland, which had been German before the war, came under the jurisdiction of the USSR. A rumor spread in the region that Russians would exterminate those with double letters in their surnames, which they considered to be a signifier of aristocracy, so many people removed a letter and later were not permitted to restore it. The \u201cZ\u201d in \u201cCapitalizm\u201d refers to the Z painted on Russian military vehicles involved in the 2022 invasion of Ukraine, which has become a pro-invasion symbol in Russia and has been critically referred to as a \u201czwaztika\u201d by opponents. The resulting term, Latte Capitalizm, <\/em>highlights late capitalism\u2019s return to privilege, elitism of the aristocracy, and unethical actions, all hiding behind a pint of soy latte.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For her exhibition at Open Source, Dro\u017cy\u0144ska has created a series of embroideries that utilize languages such as English, Afrikaans, Georgian, Hebrew, Morse code, and Braille and incorporate iconography taken from sign language, road and evacuation signs, prison tattoos, and constellations. Through this collage of languages and symbols, Dro\u017cy\u0144ska creates new hybrids of abstract symbolic structures which resist the hierarchies and one-dimensionality that normative language produces.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Monika Dro\u017cy\u0144ska, b. 1979 Poland is a visual artist, embroiderer, and activist, who is interested in language, which she explores using hand embroidery on fabric. She has pioneered embroidery techniques in contemporary art and textiles in public space. Dro\u017cy\u0144ska received a PhD from the Academy of Fine Arts Krakow Poland. She has collaborated with the Zach\u0119ta National Gallery of Art, the Center for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, the Contemporary Museum in Wroclaw, Mumok in Vienna, the Ludwig Museum in Budapest, Bozar in Brussels, Sotheby\u2019s in Tel Aviv. She has works in the collection of Bunkier Sztuki, National Museum in Krakow, Mocak Museum of Contemporary Art in Cracow, National Museum in Kiev, Lentos in Austria.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Please see the video from the talk of the artist we organized last year at Residency Unlimited<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Read article in Restart<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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9:00 PMArtist Talk: Sunday, April 14th |11:00 AM -1:00 PM with Bartek Remisko, curatorGuided Tour: Thursday, April 18th | 6:00 - 8:00 PM Limit is the limit: projectarians againsta(t)te capitalizm l Sunday, April 28th, 11:00 AM -1:00 PMFamily Sunday: May 19th | 3:00 PM - 5:00 PMField Trips: May 13 \u2013 17th\nOpen Source Gallery\n306 17th Street, Brooklyn\n\"(...) 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The \u201cZ\u201d in \u201cCapitalizm\u201d refers to the Z painted on Russian military vehicles involved in the 2022 invasion of Ukraine, which has become a pro-invasion symbol in Russia and has been critically referred to as a \u201czwaztika\u201d by opponents. The resulting term, Latte Capitalizm, highlights late capitalism\u2019s return to privilege, elitism of the aristocracy, and unethical actions, all hiding behind a pint of soy latte.\nFor her exhibition at Open Source, Dro\u017cy\u0144ska has created a series of embroideries that utilize languages such as English, Afrikaans, Georgian, Hebrew, Morse code, and Braille and incorporate iconography taken from sign language, road and evacuation signs, prison tattoos, and constellations. Through this collage of languages and symbols, Dro\u017cy\u0144ska creates new hybrids of abstract symbolic structures which resist the hierarchies and one-dimensionality that normative language produces.\nMonika Dro\u017cy\u0144ska, b. 1979 Poland is a visual artist, embroiderer, and activist, who is interested in language, which she explores using hand embroidery on fabric. She has pioneered embroidery techniques in contemporary art and textiles in public space. Dro\u017cy\u0144ska received a PhD from the Academy of Fine Arts Krakow Poland. She has collaborated with the Zach\u0119ta National Gallery of Art, the Center for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, the Contemporary Museum in Wroclaw, Mumok in Vienna, the Ludwig Museum in Budapest, Bozar in Brussels, Sotheby\u2019s in Tel Aviv. She has works in the collection of Bunkier Sztuki, National Museum in Krakow, Mocak Museum of Contemporary Art in Cracow, National Museum in Kiev, Lentos in Austria.\nPlease see the video from the talk of the artist we organized last year at Residency Unlimited.\nRead article in Restart."},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"pl-PL","@id":"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/2024\/04\/02\/latte-capitalizm-letters-as-a-source-of-resistance\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2024\/04\/IMG_7889-e1709827084813-2048x1331-1.png","contentUrl":"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2024\/04\/IMG_7889-e1709827084813-2048x1331-1.png","width":2048,"height":1331},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/2024\/04\/02\/latte-capitalizm-letters-as-a-source-of-resistance\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Latte Capitalizm: Letters as a Source of Resistance\u00a0"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/#website","url":"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/","name":"Instytut Polski w Nowym Jorku","description":"Instytuty Polskie","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"pl-PL"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/#\/schema\/person\/c732b2695ee92026d080eec35471c7f1","name":"stypulkowskaa","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"pl-PL","@id":"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/a29bb1802c91e057084d5d112dd59dc4?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/a29bb1802c91e057084d5d112dd59dc4?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"stypulkowskaa"},"url":"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/author\/stypulkowskaa-2\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/202"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11126"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11126\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12628,"href":"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11126\/revisions\/12628"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}