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April-June 2013, Borderland House, Sejny, Poland
Author: Piotr Wójcik
Curator: Dominique Roynette
Piotr Wójcik documented the lives of Roma people in Europe for the past 20 years. He photographed them in Poland, Slovakia, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, Macedonia, and France. Read More
4-15 December 2012, The Kordegarda Gallery, Warsaw, Poland
Authors: Ewa Winnicka, Chris Niedenthal
Curators: Dominique Roynette, Piotr Wójcik
In 1939–1947, almost 200 thousand Poles, damaged by the War and great politics, started living on a foreign island. Most natives were not happy.Read More
The exhibition features photographs by Piotr Wójcik, who documented the lives of Roma in Europe for the past 20 years. He photographed them in Poland, Slovakia, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, Macedonia, and France. Some of the presented works were published in the photograph album “Gypsies from both sides of the Carpathian Moutains” (published by Twój Styl 2000), as well as in numerous press publications, mostly in “Holiday Magazine” of Gazeta Wyborcza and the Dialog-Pheniben quarterly.
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2012. Piotr Wójcik
Simone de Beauvoir in the introduction to The Second Sex described a woman as “Other”, socially “secondary” in the relation with a man – “the first one”, constituting the order and the matrix according to which culture is built. Read More
2012. Piotr Wójcik
The crowded town market, music is coming from every lane, crush on the camping sites, camps on streets, noise, neigh. Horses are eating nearby.
That’s how Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer looks like once a year. Pilgrims come to the procession that sets off from the church and goes to the coast. They are carrying a dark, wooden statue upon their shoulders.Read More