Obrazoburcze spojrzenia i większościowe obrazy mniejszości
Iconoclastic Looks

Summary/Abstract: On February 16 2011 the Warsaw supplement to “Gazeta Wyborcza” contained a text by Agnieszka Kowalska describing the unrealized mural by Karol Radziszewski. The composition was to have been located in the Warsaw Uprising Museum and its execution was entrusted to the young artist in 2009. Radziszewski prepared a project showing the insurgents performing ordinary, everyday activities of the battlefield: “doing the laundry, resting, sunbathing”. According to the journalist, the Museum director described the mural as “too erotic” and decided to reject the project claiming that its realisation could have hurt the feelings of living insurgents. The conflict and ensuing discussion concerning the unrealised project and its other embodiments became a point of departure for the article’s reflections on the identity polities and visibility in public space.

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