CURRENT EXHIBITION:
FREEE - HOW TO BE HOSPITABLE
Exhibition: Sat 5th April - Sat 17th May
BIllboards: 27th March - 10th April
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Part of The GRZEWCZY Season
Freee’s work uses slogans, performances, billboards
and publications. They are interested in the traffic between
the gallery and the street, between art’s institutions
and everyday culture, and between art and politics. As
a group they do not make work that addresses issues in
a thematic way; instead they aim to divide opinion and
challenge debate. In this new work, they aim to use the
Polish experience to trigger a much wider debate about
the underlying issues of global capitalism that Polish
immigration is just one part of.
The exhibition How to be Hospitable was
accompanied by three Billboard commissions that were
shown within
Edinburgh.
The three new billboard works commissioned by the Collective
Gallery’s One Mile Project and created by artist
collective Freee were on display in Leith for the first
part of the exhibition. These striking billboards were
created in response to the recent
wave of Polish immigrant workers in the UK and particularly
in Edinburgh. They read: Fight Against Multiculturalism
Commodifying Your Difference; Immigrants of the World Unite!;
and I am a Foreign Citizen; I am a Local Outsider; I am
a Migrant Worker.
The GRZEWCZY Season
3 months of participatory Polish projects at the Collective
Gallery.
The Collective Gallery is extending a welcome to Edinburgh's
newly immigrated Polish community. During this season of
exhibitions and events we hope to provide a platform for
cross-cultural investigation, participation and collaboration.
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