Identity in dialogue or homeless despair? Critical sensitivity in Polish art at the turn of the 21st century
Identity in dialogue or homeless despair? Critical sensitivity in Polish art at the turn of the 21st century

Summary/Abstract: The text presents examples of Polish contemporary art critical towards the traditional expression of patriotism and religion. It stresses, however, that not only Mirosław Bałka, whose art follows private, historic and cultural leads, but also Wilhelm Sasnal, Rafał Bujnowski and Marta Deskur, controversial in the context of the national attitude to the Catholic religion, perhaps do not reject such a heritage to form the fluid identity in transverse becoming oneself. They rather react sensitively and carry on their artistic and critical dialogue with it to build their own identity in dialogue with Oneself As Another. On the other hand, such art is still perceived mostly as an expression of an ostentatious refusal of one’s heritage and the feeling of homelessness representing a kind of existential despair.

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