August 4 – October 30, 2022

The first solo museum exhibition of my work, “What becomes a Legend most?”, was presented in three galleries at the Zacheta National Gallery of Art in Warsaw, Poland. Curated by Michal Jachula, the exhibition included videos, films, objects and works on paper from 1971–2022.

Gallery One

“What becomes a Legend most?” (2022), “An Artist of a Certain Time” (2019), “Mogul Shopping Bags” (2019), and “Body Sculptures” (1971) were displayed in gallery one.

Gallery Two

Gallery two featured the installation, Tales from the Mogul Archive (2022) alongside two monitors that screened four of my videos from the 1970’s.

Tales from the Mogul Archive, a 36-panel “magnum opus”, blends 20th century visual culture with my personal history. This series of seven narratives, investigates matrilineal lineage, fashion, sexuality, and photography. Featuring photographs from my mother’s archive and mine, Tales is also a memoir about the creative impact my mother, a lifelong amateur photographer, had on her boomer feminist daughter.

Gallery Three

Film Projection and Wallpaper Installation (2022)

I designed wallpaper patterns to frame two film projection areas in gallery three. The pink and blue wallpaper pattern (on the left), comprised of images of birth control pills, was designed for my film about women who are childless by choice or chance titled “Sing O Barren Woman”.

The black and white wallpaper pattern (on the right) is comprised of two photographs my mother shot in 1965: “Mom’s Self Portrait as Pregnant Photographer” and a tongue and cheek photograph of me mimicking Mom being pregnant. The pattern was designed for my film about Mom and our creative connection through photography titled, “Mom’s Move” (2018).

Photo credits for all installation shots: Daniel Rumiancew.