Garaža Kamba

“She isn’t doing much of anything now is a series of textile artworks by artist Ola Korbańska resembling magazine cut-outs with slogans that derive from chats, gossip, dating situations as well as quotes found in literature and pop culture. They reflect on the feminine narratives — portrayals and representations of female presence in culture combined with personal situations openly exposed to the public. Full of contradictions, they grasp girlhood in its broad spectrum, of what’s intimate, collective, political or gossipy. It is a collection of moods on how we are seen and how we feel. We are sad but at least we are tanned.

In one of the chapters of Scum Manifesto, Valerie Solanas describes activities that females “waste away their time with, in ways of their own choosing”, like lolling on the beach, sewing or visiting. While the text itself is radical, this short fragment allows the dreamy, lazy element to be part of the feminist practice. Fascinated by this duality between fragility and resistance, Ola Korbańska builds a textile fort inside a garage that typically represents masculine space, transforming it into a feminine refuge. It is a gossip temple, filled with confessions and struggles, where everyone is welcome to chat, giggle, not do much of anything, rest and radicalize.

Similarly, the accompanied public programme co-curated with Tia Čiček brings together non-institutionally framed gatherings which go against an ever-producing mindset, but rather creates the atmosphere where people are nudged to relax. a curated playlist on desire and disclosure becomes the exhibition openings sonic backbone a mix that blurs boundaries between the private and the collective. The programme resists productivity in favour of presence: a space where gossip turns into points of departure, leisure becomes method, and intimacy is treated as a political act. Through shared listening, slow conversation, reading, napping, and gentle care rituals, the public programme extends Korbańska’s textile environment into lived experience … one that unfolds through giggles, confessions, and moments of doing not much at all.”
– Ola Korbańska, Tia Čiček

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