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| Patriotic Literature
books, couch
2006, Contemporary Art Center, Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, Poland
2006, Shalom Foundation, Warsaw, Poland |
Curator: Magda Pustoła
Coooperation: Maciej Walczyna
phot. courtesy Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle Warsaw
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Patriotic Literature
A spatial installation. An otherwise empty room with a big sofa covered with a colourful fabric in the middle. Cosy, dimmed light, a comfy atmosphere. Scattered on the sofa are anti-Semitic publications purchased in the Antyk Patriotic Bookstore in the basement of the Catholic church on Grzybowski Square, in Warsaw. Despite public criticism, the literature continues to be sold there at the priest's and the Church hierarchy's consent. The exhibited copies differ from the originals in that their pages have been printed as a mirror image. The project plays with stereotypes, reversing the classic relation of anti-Semitism and its criticism. The room's pleasant interior clashes with the heavy, hateful content of the publications. It diverts attention and shifts meanings, thus exposing ever more powerfully one of the crucial encumbrances of the Polish collective memory. emphasizing its contemporary, still not worked through, and today highly topical dimension. Revealing the Other - it exposes ourselves. Magda Pustoła |
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Henry Ford, The International Jew
Józef Kruszyński, Anti-Semitism, Anti-Judaism, Anti-Goism
Andrzej Leszek Szcześniak, Judeopolonia II. The Anatomy of Poland's Enslavement
Jerzy Robert Nowak, Jan Tadeusz Gross's 100 Lies About the Jewish Neighbours and Jedwabne
ks. Stanisław Trzeciak, Messianism and the Jewish Question
Ks. Prał. Henryk Jankowski, Popes About the Jews, Freemasonry, and Communism
Stanisław Krajski, St. Maksymilian Kolbe About Freemasonry and the Jews
ks. Prof. Józef Kruszyński, Why Am I Against the Jews?
Stanisław Bełza, To Be Or Not to Be
autor anonimowy, Recognize the Jew
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