Slime
Zachęta — National Gallery of Art•Jul 25, 2025 — Oct 19, 2025
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The Slime exhibition presents a selection of 140 recent gouaches on paper or canvas, and premiere installations created especially for the space of Zachęta. Joanna Fluder has developed her own artistic language that combines surrealism, personal mythology, humour, and a vivid imagination. In her works, she talks about women’s everyday experiences, motherhood, neurodivergence, creative work, the social role of care, and the relationship with the surroundings, especially nature.
The recurrent motifs of snails and insects are a metaphor for the experience of “inconspicuous persons”, which transcends species, and for their alternative ways of being – quiet, deliberate, and ineffective by common social standards. In weak, helpless, beyond-human beings, the artist finds the figures she needs to talk about her experience as an artist, mother, sister, and daughter, as well as patterns of emancipation.
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Slime
Zachęta — National Gallery of Art•Jul 25, 2025 — Oct 19, 2025
Press Release
The Slime exhibition presents a selection of 140 recent gouaches on paper or canvas, and premiere installations created especially for the space of Zachęta. Joanna Fluder has developed her own artistic language that combines surrealism, personal mythology, humour, and a vivid imagination. In her works, she talks about women’s everyday experiences, motherhood, neurodivergence, creative work, the social role of care, and the relationship with the surroundings, especially nature.
The recurrent motifs of snails and insects are a metaphor for the experience of “inconspicuous persons”, which transcends species, and for their alternative ways of being – quiet, deliberate, and ineffective by common social standards. In weak, helpless, beyond-human beings, the artist finds the figures she needs to talk about her experience as an artist, mother, sister, and daughter, as well as patterns of emancipation.
For years…
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