sunday 17.09.2023, 13:45 - 14:45
- Marta Frej – visual artist, illustrator, president of the Kulturoholizm Foundation,
- Anna Pamuła – Polish reporter and writer.
Marta Frej – visual artist, illustrator, president of the Kulturoholizm Foundation. She graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Łódź. She has participated in many group exhibitions and had around 50 solo exhibitions.
She is the winner of the 2015 Glasses of Equality Award, awarded by the Izabela Jaruga-Nowacka Foundation, in the category of women’s rights and counteracting gender discrimination for artistic work committed to defending women’s rights and gender equality.
Co-author of the book “Memes and Graphs” with Agnieszka Graff, author of the herstory comic strip “Dromaderki”, and the book “150 faces of Marta Frej”.
Her most well-known works are captioned paintings with feminist themes and sociological premises. They illustrate the contemporary life of women in Poland. The works, which have taken the form of paintings, have been exhibited in various galleries throughout Poland. Her memetic strategy has been scientifically analysed by Justyna Budzińska in terms of diagnosis (the way in which the subject was chosen), creation (the choice of method of execution) and, most broadly, the choice of remedy. Marta Frej’s work was also used by Paweł Sarna to describe the performative aspect of memes in terms of selected interpretative frameworks during his research on the role of internet memes used as rhetorical messages.
In 2017, she was awarded the O!Shining-Cultural Awards by Onet for giving memes the status of an artistic work; for feminist art on the internet, which – thanks to its topicality and uncompromising nature – has real power. She co-organised the Arteria Festival of Contemporary Art in Public Space in Częstochowa Arteria.
She has worked at the Centre for the Promotion of the Young in Częstochowa and at the Centre for the Promotion of Culture “Gaude Mater” in Częstochowa. Since August 2020, she has lived and run a studio in Gdynia. A regular contributor to the Polityka weekly, as well as to Gazeta Wyborcza.
Anna Pamuła – Polish reporter and writer living in Paris. Her texts are published in “Gazeta Wyborcza”, “Wysokie Obcasy”, “Chidusz” and the French monthly “Parents”. For years, she has collaborated with Martyna Wojciechowska on documentaries and books. She is the author of four books: “Polacos. Chajka płynie do Kostaryki”, “Wrzenie. Francja na krawędzi” (nominated for several literary awards, including National Geographic’s book of the year), “Mamans du Monde” in French and “Moms to Talk to. Mothers of the world about love, strength and difficult choices”. Together with Marta Frej, she is creating the social project Tabubabki. She is a member of the Historical and Literary Society of Paris and an Ambassador of the Birth by Humanity Foundation.
