Michalina Kacperak – Soft Spot

Nobody here is who they should be. Children have grown up too early, whereas adults never have.

The exhibition brings you into the life of contradictions and contrasts in the author’s family, affected by the father’s alcohol addiction and the codependency developed by other family members. Here, imagination becomes the only safe space.

Michalina Kacperak visited her family home regularly for three years to photograph the room of her youngest sister, Zosia. Focusing on items first, she would then move on to engage in distinct interactions with the family members. Through play, the two sisters explored and transformed the small room, in which the photographer found visual metaphors for her childhood memories. The photos are in fact the record of the returns that she needed in order to finally leave home properly. Soft Spot is all about a painful lesson in sensitivity and the process of healing, but also of the artist’s attempt to connect with her inner child through play.

Curator: Katarzyna Sagatowska
Partners of the exhibition: Fujifilm Poland, Lodz Film School, JEDNOSTKA Gallery

Exhibition in partnership with Krakow Photomonth Festival

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Art_Inkubator, Tymienieckiego 3

DID YOU KNOW THAT Art_Inkubator is located in the former factory of Karol Scheibler II, son of the greatest factory owner in Łódź? 

Every firstborn son in the Scheibler family was named Karol. The factory is a part of Księży Młyn, also called a “town in town” or “Polish Manchester”. Scheibler Senior built the largest textile factory in this part of Europe, as well as an estate of workers’ houses, many palaces, hospitals, schools, and parks. Karol Scheibler’s legacy was later developed by Karol Scheibler II, who erected factories at Tymienieckiego and Milionowa Streets. The factory still has the original Russian gauge railway tracks! You will find them near the passage to the new “Fuzja” estate.