Jacek Niegoda

The object is both an installation and a tangible document of Niegoda’s artistic activity inspired by a major sports event that brought on patriotic excitement even among those who are not interested in sports on a daily basis.  Citizenship and participating in social life can be understood as the result of living in the same space, but when it comes to culture it is all about emphasizing one’s own individuality. National colours or an agreed interpretation of symbols shape a community, but this unity, strengthened by education and upbringing, is also based on differentiating oneself from all the others, on emphasizing differences that may form the basis of conflicts and exclusions. Hence, Niegoda offers us to tear apart whatever restrains our freedom to be with others outside agreed norms.

• Object type:
  installation (58 elements),
• Year:
  2013
• Dimensions:
  ca. 400 × 75 × 200 cm
• inv. no.:
  MNG/NOMUS/35/D/1-58
• Własność:
  Gdańsk Collection of Contemporary Art, a deposit of the Gdańsk City Municipality in the collections of NOMUS - the New Museum of Art, a Department of the National Museum in Gdańsk