APART

They sit at the table

In circles, in rectangles

Their affairs

Their appearances*....

The pandemic has changed our daily lives. It deprived us of the freedom to manage time and place. It sentenced us to live TOGETHER or APART. Together – in a shared, often cramped space; apart, because we sought in that space the possibility to be separate, a place just for ourselves.

The table, which had previously been a place of meeting, conversation and closeness, increasingly began to divide us. We planted Anxiety, Frustration, Discouragement at the table instead of Understanding, Tolerance, Closeness....

"I miss you across the table at which we sit," wrote Jeremi Przybora to Agnieszka Osiecka.**

Let's look for a common path from APART to TOGETHER. Let's "set" the table with glassware designed by Małgorzata Mitka.  Let our intentions be as clear as glass, while feelings - delicate and lasting. Because there is strength and power in the seemingly fragile glass. The Power of Earth and the Power of Fire.

"If you don't like the way the table is set, turn it upside down," Francis Underwood advised in the film "House of Cards." 

The table, set with glass by Małgorzata Mitka, will not only not be turned upside down, but we will leave it with difficulty and regret. abi

* Miron Białoszewski, “Stołowa piosenka  prawie o wszechbycie”( “Table Song Almost Of The Universe”)

**JeremiPrzybora,  “Agnieszki Osieckieji Jeremiego Przybory listy na wyczerpanym papierze” (“Letters on exhausted paper by Agnieszka Osiecka and Jeremi Przybora“) 

MAŁGORZATA MITKA

Graduated from the Faculty of Ceramics and Glass at the E. Geppert Academy of Art and Design in Wroclaw, Poland, 2016. 

She has received a scholarship from the Minister of Culture and National Heritage, 2016, and from the President of Wroclaw, 2015/2016.

She has participated in 2 individual exhibitions in Poland, including "Memory Cards",  the exhibition in the programme of the Play with Glass – European Glass Festival, BB Gallery, Wroclaw, 2016, and in 15 group exhibitions in Poland, the Czech Republic and Germany.

In her utility glass projects, she pays mainly attention to simplicity and functionality. She also creates unique objects made from sodium and optical glass, seeking inspiration in the surrounding nature.

Full-time employed  at the Atlas Fox Dekorator, for which she designs, among other things, patterns of decorative plaster.