A gentle kiss on a double forehead
BGSW / Baszta•Jun 20, 2026 — Sep 06, 2026
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A Gentle Kiss on a Double Forehead brings together works from the past seven years of Jan Baszak’s artistic practice, centering on skin as both a material and a figure separated from the body, carrying memory and traces of wear. Here, skin functions as an archival record, but also as an object of attention that intensifies the experience of the fragment. Baszak stitches his animal sculptures from reclaimed materials. Densely joined textiles evoke wounds, fur, and skin detached from the orders to which they are conventionally assigned. This lyrical figuration allows the perspective of the victim to emerge as one of the positions produced by the exhibition.
The exhibition employs the concept of the fetish as an element that suddenly acquires an excess of meaning and concentrates attention upon itself as something more important than usual. From this perspective, the works create a tension between what is visible and what can no longer be recovered. The fetish renders absence material,…
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A gentle kiss on a double forehead
BGSW / Baszta•Jun 20, 2026 — Sep 06, 2026
Press Release
A Gentle Kiss on a Double Forehead brings together works from the past seven years of Jan Baszak’s artistic practice, centering on skin as both a material and a figure separated from the body, carrying memory and traces of wear. Here, skin functions as an archival record, but also as an object of attention that intensifies the experience of the fragment. Baszak stitches his animal sculptures from reclaimed materials. Densely joined textiles evoke wounds, fur, and skin detached from the orders to which they are conventionally assigned. This lyrical figuration allows the perspective of the victim to emerge as one of the positions produced by the exhibition.
The exhibition employs the concept of the fetish as an element that suddenly acquires an excess of meaning and concentrates attention upon itself as something more important than usual. From this perspective, the works create a tension between what is visible and what can no longer be recovered. The fetish renders absence material,…
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