What sculpts us?

The Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw invites you to creative workshops for adults that accompany the exhibition “Sculpture after stability”.

What if the portrait of a man did not show his appearance, but what shaped him? Let's imagine a person as an abstract, soft sculpture made of fresh clay: everything that she touched and leaned against leaves an imprint on her. What are the footprints and prints? What sculpts us?

We will start by looking for inspiration in the works of artists from the exhibition “Sculpture after stability”. We take a look at the work of Kaari Upson, who combined the casts of a tree that grows next to her family home with the prints of her own knees. We will see how Nicole Wermers and Ken Sortais transform the footprint of old sculptures into something completely new. We will also look through the transparent sculpture of Gizela Mickiewicz and try to read the impressions of specific meetings, situations and experiences.

In the practical part, we will create our own bas-reliefs, in which we will write in an abstract way the traces of our own or someone else's biography. On flat clay molds, we will imprint different materials and objects so that an artistic record of what we associate with a particular person is created.