ARTIST TALK: Aleksandra Karkowska & Barbara Caillot

Join Polish artists Barbara Caillot and Aleksandra Karkowska for an introduction and insight into their fascinating project of the legendary White Bear of Zakopane, exploring how thousands of pictures of White Bears have become a symbol of Polish popular culture over the past 100 years.

About the Artists:

Barbara Caillot and Aleksandra Karkowska have written several books together, created a publishing house and created cultural events. Their brave diligence, inquisitive curiosity and particular sensitivity are not tied to a specific place on the geographical, ethnographic or cultural map of Poland.

They have dealt with metropolitan Warsaw, the highland Podtatrze region, Sopot - a seaside resort - and people travelling on the legendary ship "Batory". For all their differences, their publications have a strong common denominator. It is the memory of things first, simple, deeply personal. An emotional memory ascribed to a specific person, as fleeting and fragile as any single…