installation 2017
14 unglazed ceramic objects, wallpaper, 4 framed photographs
The installation “Xenia” by Dorota Walentynowicz is a work referring to architecture and the history of modern tourism in Greece. Following the implementation of the Marshall Plan, tourism has become a priority industry for the Greek state in the efforts to restructure and mitigate class conflicts at the end of the World War II and the Civil war. In 1950-1974, the Greek government introduced the Xenia project, a national coastal tourism development program aimed at the new middle class: under the supervision of the most outstanding architects in the country, a network of elegant, well-designed hotel complexes has emerged, which have become far prototypes of modern mass holiday resorts.
The installation was conceived for the exhibition „WHITE LIE” at CSW Kronika in Bytom, curated by Emilia Orzechowska and Stanisław Ruksza. Title phrase „white lie” can be explained as consciously telling the untruth (which is at odds with true conviction of the speaker), without giving intentions to the one that is being deceived. A white lie is meant to mislead, but it is not meant to hurt or harm. On the contrary, it is often meant to help (at least as far as the lying is concerned). It is the kind of a lie we tell others to make them feel better. The topic of the exhibition was taken on different planes, socially, ethically (post-truth) and artistically in regard to a form, which in this case refers to and draws directly from the white colour, its variation and transformations.
exhibition views: CCA Kronika, Bytom 2017
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