GALERIA im. ANDRZEJA PIERZGALSKIEGO. Dokumenty Artystów 7
ANDRZEJ PIERZGALSKI GALLERY. Artists' Documents 7

Edition 7 - Program Assumptions

Summary/Abstract: Christiane Taubira, a member of the National Assembly of France for French Guiana, wasthe driving force behind the 2001 law – known as Taubira Law. The documentation prepared by Émilie Blanc is consistent with the postcolonial studies, begun by the works of Roland Barthes as early as in the fifties, but developed – mainly in the United States – until the end of the seventies.Émilie Blanc celebrates mostly the courage and the method of female artists, these black womenand-artists, who took up the arduous task in the seventies by starting their research in the realm of art, with the use of the détournement method as well as recontextualisation, but primarily by taking a stand – inextricably ethical and political, artistic and political. In the article by Émilie Blanc we will see how (in the same way as the slavery that was indissolubly bound with colonization was recognized as a crime against humanity five centuries after being invented by western empires), this fight came to be recogniszed decades later. Some battles and researches have to poignantly follow the long line of history. It is enough to reread Henryk Sienkiewicz’s classic novel In Desert and Wilderness3 to understand the length of the way we still need to go.

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