Elżbieta Jabłońska: 83 Waiters and an Assistant

In Atlas Sztuki, in which we consistently show everything that is interesting in contemporary art, it is time to present the work of Elżbieta Jabłońska. A versatile artist who, in addition to performance activities, deals with painting, drawing, photography, graphics or installation. In addition to her artistic activity, Jabłońska, an assistant professor with a doctoral degree - living in Bydgoszcz - conducts classes with students at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University. Nicolaus Copernicus in Toruń.

In her work inspired by mass culture, as Maria Morzuch writes, the artist devotes a special place to a woman and her role. In an interesting conversation with Tomasz Załuski, however, Elżbieta Jabłońska points out that "the feminist or post-feminist context does not play any role either in the way I design or later read my own projects. It is difficult for me to accept the situation of such unambiguous assignment of works to very specific trends".

Ambiguity is an important aspect of the project prepared for the Atlas Sztuki. The opening day of the exhibition is special in this presentation. A day that the artist says is a "characteristic kind of holiday". Inspired by the course of the opening, the artist, open to social issues, intends to subject this holiday to a comprehensive review. Maria Poprzęcka in a very interesting text, not so much about Elżbieta Jabłońska, but about the opening ceremony, asks: "Is it happening like many? An idea for a vernissage "other than all"? A perverse concept? Everything a little bit, but something else and something more". The artist proposes a complex game between "openness" and "closedness", between "outside" and "inside", a game in which she predicted surprises for the participants: a feeling of instability, danger and discomfort. I wonder how a group of about 500 people, usually coming to the Atlas Sztuki on the opening evening of the exhibition, will experience this celebration of vernissage, which Elżbieta Jabłońska wants to make a kind of deconstruction in front of us, the audience, in her original project.