19 May, 2018

WE NEED TO CREATE ALTERNATIVES FOR THE FUTURE AND WE NEED TO CREATE THEM NOW, COLLECTIVELY Alicja Rogalska in conversation with Roma Piotrowska Roma: In this interview series, I visit artists in their studios. We’ve met at your home because you don’t have a studio. Is it a deliberate decision? Alicja: No, it isn’t. I just can’t afford a studio. Living in London as a full time artist is enough of a struggle. I had a studio at SPACE studios in Hoxton, which I shared with Joanna Rajkowska, but we

07 Apr, 2018

THERE IS NO SHAME IN BEING EASTERN EUROPEAN Roma Piotrowska in discussion with Katarzyna Perlak First published in Contemporary Lynx Roma Piotrowska: Could you tell me a bit about your background as an artist? Katarzyna Perlak: I studied philosophy, as well arts and crafts in Poland. I also started studying photography at the Academy of Fine Arts in Poznań, but after one term I went for a gap year to London and quickly decided to stay for much longer. RP: How quickly did you decide to stay? KP:

07 Feb, 2018

Nottingham Contemporary 16 December 2017 - 4 March 2018 Review by Roma Piotrowska First published in This is Tomorrow All music is political. Music in the Arab world even more so, due to its sinful status in certain regimes in Islam. In spite of that the Middle Eastern culture is very musical, as is demonstrated through ‘From Ear to Ear to Eye: Sounds and Stories From Across the Arab World’ at Nottingham Contemporary. It explores sound, music and listening in the Arab world, revealing different

25 Nov, 2017

Hepworth Wakefield 21 October 2017 - 28 January 2018 Review by Roma Piotrowska First published in Contemporary Lynx At the entrance to the gallery lies a leg, the limb of the artist Alina Szapocznikow (1926–1973), cast in plaster. This modest and early in her career sculpture, the first cast of her own body, is the clue to the whole exhibition at Hepworth Wakefield. It sums up the way Szapocznikow worked, using her own body to remember and conserve the unstable. The leg seems to kick the viewer