„Fabric Store” | Natalia Brodacka | Kinga Popiela | Małgorzata Szymankiewicz

„Fabric Store” | Natalia Brodacka | Kinga Popiela | Małgorzata Szymankiewicz

Venue: Szewska 16 Gallery, 16 Szewska Str.
Opening: 8.10.2025, 18:00 
Duration of exhibition: 8-26.10.2025 
Curator: Natalia Czarcińska
Opening hours: daily 9:00-19:00
Co-organizers: Fundacja Jak Malowana, Magdalena Abakanowicz University of the Arts Poznan, Faculty of Art Education and Curatorial Studies, Fundacja Nowa UAP

Partners: Municipal Galleries of the Magdalena Abakanowicz University of the Arts Poznan

Exhibition is an accompanying event of the 5th Biennial of Textile Art in Poznan www.btapoznan.pl

Financed by the City of Poznan budget funds #poznanwspiera

Somewhere in my memory, there was a literary description of a fabric store, where thick, lush textiles filled the space, and color “spilled out” and completed it. Unfortunately, I couldn’t find that passage again, but that’s how it often is with stories and books – sometimes we simply forget them, and the plots and narratives become intertwined. Or perhaps that store just appeared to me in a dream? Either way, I can still picture that place in my imagination, and its character inspired this exhibition.

bolts
rolls
meters
remnants
rhythm
color
scent

The exhibition, for which I invited Małgorzata Szymankiewicz, Kinga Popiela, and Natalia Brodacka, is based on a sensual impression. Paintings and textiles fill imagined shelves. The painterly gesture intertwines with spatial thinking, and individual elements engage in harmonious dialogue with one another.

A fabric store is shelves filled with color, which we perceive sensually… not just by looking, but also by touching, testing, comparing. The same thing happens in the gallery. There are works one wants to touch, to feel their texture, to understand their materiality, to experience how they affect us and the space.

The “Fabric Store” exhibition is about the visible and the invisible. About what lies on the surface and what lies beneath, what is revealed and what remains deeply hidden. I am certain that the artists invited to participate are fully aware not only of the gestures they make and the traces they leave behind, but also of the material of the canvas – its weave, weight, the tension of being stretched over a frame or the lack of one. It is a space between painting and artistic textile.

Natalia Czarcińska