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Mimosa House will present Paulina Ołowska's seminal performance Abeceda set in dialogue with Tomaso Binga's alphabet works.

Paulina Olowska’s performance is inspired by the book entitled ABECEDA by Karel Teige - a key figure of the Czech avant-garde who created the experimental “moving alphabet” in 1926 in cooperation with Milca Mayerova.

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Paulina Olowska (b. 1976, Gdansk, Poland) works in painting, performance, installation and curating. She focuses on forgotten figures of feminism, minor histories, and popular aesthetics, quoting period fashion photography, agitprop posters, graffiti, periodicals, and signage. Olowska recently had solo projects and exhibitions at the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (2013), Kunsthalle Basel (2013) and Zacheta National Gallery, Warsaw (2014) and Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh (2013). She lives in Krakow, Poland.

Tomaso Binga’s first solo exhibition in the UK is currently on view at Mimosa House until 20 December 2019. ‘Tomaso Binga’ is the artistic pseudonym of Bianca Pucciarelli Menna (b. 1931, Salerno, Italy), which was adopted by the artist in the early 1970s. Working with poetry, writing, performance, collage and painting, Binga dissects and challenges the gendered nature of language – exposing patriarchy encrypted within its very structure. The paradoxical act of appropriating a masculine name allowed the artist to parody male prerogatives in society, emphasising women’s lack of agency and voice within the arts and politics.

This event is kindly supported by Arts Council England.

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