Szukanie sensu ludzkiego świata. Legendy miejskie
Searching for Sense of the Human World. “Urban Legends”

Author(s): Marta Rusek-Cabaj
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, History of Art
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego
Summary/Abstract: In November 2013, in the Gallery of the Association of Polish Photographers from the Sile-sian District in Katowice, an exhibition entitled Urban Legends took place. During the exhibitionthe artistic works of students of the Academy of Fine Arts were displayed. It is no coincidencethat the Department of Literary Interpretation and the Department of Interdisciplinary Studiesengaged themselves in the examination of urban legends. The installations presented on the ex-hibition were often interconnected with verbal elements, as if to emphasise the source and therelation to the oral origins of legends, rumours and incredible stories… It turned out that urbanlegends may be understood broadly, interpreted in many different ways and translated into theartistic language. As Dionizjusz Czubala, cited in the exhibition brochure, emphasised (and theexhibition itself confirmed): “the new system of thinking [a realistic one, based on facts andcause-and-effect logic — author’s annotation] has not resulted in the elimination of the need forcreating myths from our lives”.

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