Artist Talk: Marzena Abrahamik

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Marzena Abrahamik presents two projects, including Return and collaborative work by Rager.

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Marzena Abrahamik will do a presentation of two projects, Return, as well as collaborative work by Rager Join us at Leica Gallery Chicago for a presentation by visual artist, Marzena Abrahamik . Return is a visual research project in which Marzena Abrahamik explores how Polish diasporic identity continues to reimagine itself and negotiate the racial landscape of the United States. The project radiates outward from portraits and stories of immigration within Chicago’s Polish communities—long considered the heart of the Polish diaspora in the U.S. and often called “New Poland”—connecting them to portraits and narratives of return migration throughout various parts of Poland. It further expands into collections of photographs from Abrahamik’s family albums, 4×5 landscape photographs of iconic “must-visit” places in Poland, images of eagles, storks, swans, and wolves, and archival materials. Abrahamik’s personal experiences and observations throughout the journey toward American citizenship inform the project. Through reflections on family migration history, memorabilia, interpersonal and transnational communications, and familial connections to Chicago’s Polish community—where her mother arrived in 1983 and became a prominent figure—Abrahamik continues to challenge conventional notions of what it means to be a model citizen. feeding a swan to a wolf is a body of work created by Rager (Marzena Abrahamik and Rebecca Kressley) between 2024 to the present.

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