Sekula will attend the opening of the show, called Allan Sekula: Polonia and Other Fables.
Sekula?s work, which includes series of photographs, films as well as historical and theoretical studies ?are directed toward the continuous, critical renewal and reinterpretation of the documentary genre, and at mapping out the deeper mechanisms of social processes,? say the exhibition organisers. ?It is politics, history, social relations, ecology and the phenomena of climate change that emerge from his works, or as he himself says, the imaginary and real morphology of developed capitalism.?
The show, organised with the cooperation of the Zacheta National Gallery of Art in Warsaw, includes both early and recent works by Sekula. At the centre of the exhibition is a new work, a photo series, entitled Polonia and Other Fables (2007-2009), which ?is about both the Polish community living in the United States and the Poland of today, about research into his personal roots, and about national symbols concealed in nationalist ideologies, the current American-Polish relations, the economy and market competition, and not least about the diversions and borders of the genre of traditional photography.
Barnabás Bencsik will open the show, and the artist. Karolina Lewandowska, who was the curator of the exhibition in Warsaw, will give a tour. Katalin Székely is curator of the show in Budapest.
Photo: Ludwig Museum
