The Polish Institute in Rome and Fondazione Pastificio Cerere present Buona Fortuna, Diana Lelonek’s first personal exhibition in Italy, curated by Jakub Gawkowsky. The exhibition is the result of the Polish artist and curator’s residence at Pastificio Cerere in January 2020.

Diana Lelonek creates interdisciplinary research-based projects inspired by natural sciences and eco-activism, which raise the issue of the human place within nature and the end of anthropocentrism, the human-centered paradigm of Western civilization. Her work offers a voice critical of over-production and unlimited growth in various ways, including photography, artistic use of mould, and display of objects commonly considered as trash.

The exhibition’s path, that takes place in the upper space of the silos and underground Spazio Molini, will unfold the results of the research carried out by the artist in two far apart and apparently unrelated places: Upper Silesia, a Polish industrial region, and the alpine glaciers of the Rhone, the Aletsch and  the Morteratsch that become the main characters of an environmental sound sculptures.

“With my practice – declares the artist – I am looking for answer to what “Nature” means today, in the Anthropocene era. In my opinion it's impossible to separate natural and cultural processes: capitalistic overproduction is too large and has huge impact on almost every natural process. For me is important to talking about alternatives, new kind of thinking and even new language to describes this completely new nature/culture relations.”

Working with image and sound, Diana Lelonek explores the connection between cultural identities and the feelings of belonging and loss. The artist’s focuses on inter-specific relations, cultural rituals related to nature and their histories, which provide insight into the pre-human past, the crisis of the present, and the uncertain future of planetary environment. 

Sound instalations in collaboration with: Denim Szram, Bartosz Zaskórski.