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Poland’s vibrant contemporary art and culture at Calvert 22

LONDON.- The Forgetting of Proper Names is a two-month season that focuses on Poland’s vibrant contemporary art and culture, and which explores the way the past is reshaped over time and reinterpreted as it crosses cultural boundaries. The main event is an exhibition of three young Polish artists who show for the first time in London: Wojciech Bąkowski (b. 1979), Anna Molska (b. 1983) and Agnieszka Polska (b. 1985). These artists primarily work with the moving image and cross-discipline methods. Hence, there will also be performance, screenings, literary readings and discussion that explore the artist’s innovative engagement with the avant-garde’s history and Poland’s changing social conditions today. Now in their late twenties and early thirties, Bąkowski, Molska and Polska grew up in post-communist Poland. Although close in age and sharing a use of media and materials, each artist interacts with their