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Part of our glass works presented @The Walls Have Ears show

“(...)The storage nature of the exhibition is further emphasized by the intervention of Nomadic State. The aquariums with water animals, entered in the CITES register, pose a charming question about the level of empathy in the employees. The glass houses for smuggled animals feature somewhat peculiar creatures, including a white axolotl, whose colour is the result of a mutated male of the species that was trafficked to Paris in 1863, or an eartheater that is the first generation of wild parents.”

Bigger documentation available @Ofluxo

https://www.ofluxo.net/the-walls-have-ears-at-trafostacja-sztuki-w-szczecinie-curated-by-daria-grabowska/

The Walls Have Ears Inside Job (Ula Lucińska, Michał Knychaus), Nomadic State (Karolina Mełnicka, Stachu Szumski) Curated by Daria Grabowska At Trafostacja Sztuki w Szczecinie, Szczecin, Poland 26.09.2019 – 15.11.2019

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  Nomadic State

 “Tourrorism Allinclusive” 

@9/10 Gallery / Poznań 

“In November 2017, we visited the Egyptian coast of Sinai to collide the generally accepted principle of traveling in a system organized by a travel agency, with free, spontaneous navigation around Egypt" on their own. " For several years, however, there are terrorist attacks against various religious groups and tourists, which effectively prevents summer visitors from going to these areas. The economic picture of this country, dependent on tourism, defines a new, apocalyptic coastal landscape - viewed through the prism of unfinished skeletons and ruins of once-popular hotel complexes. This trip was the starting point and inspiration for the implementation of works dealing with the subject of organized tourism.“ 

Pictures by Kuba Borkowicz

For polish readers, a full documentation and review by Piotr Policht available under the link:

https://magazynszum.pl/pamietniki-z-postapokaliptycznych-wakacji-karolina-melnicka-i-stach-szumski-w-galerii-9-10/

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Together with Karolina Mełnicka, we did a scenography for Iza Szostaks performance “National Affairs” @ Nowy Teatr in Warsaw. 

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In Search of the Meaning of Life – Nomadic State @ BWA Studio, Wrocław

Karolina Mełnicka and Stach Szumski, founders of the fictitious country/group Nomadic State, will talk about the meaning of life and where to look for it. The trip the artists took begins in a blablacar setting out from Warsaw’s Central Station towards the Siberian Altai Republic 7,000 kilometers away, goes on to reach the Korean island of Jeju, and ends in Japan. The story will be the principal theme of the exhibition presented at the Gallery Studio BWA Wrocław. However, the artists’ adventures are not the essence of their work. The meaning-of-life question leads to the issue of spirituality in the context of new technologies and expansive policies. It is possible the journey does not actually end in Korea, just as it does not end in Poland or anywhere else in the world. It is also possible that the meaning we ask about does not exist.

Curator: Michał Grzegorzek

In cooperation with Giuseppe Rositiano 

Pictures by Alicja Kielan and Stach Szumski

For english readers:

http://contemporarylynx.co.uk/there-is-always-snow-on-the-moon

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