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Staged on the gallery’s seventh floor, which Olowska will transform into an immersive theatrical set, this presentation is a bold reinterpretation of Polish artist, playwright, and theorist Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz’s 1924 play The Mother (Matka).

Witkiewicz’s surrealist masterpiece challenged conventions of Polish theater and art, and, in the century since its debut, his play has continued to captivate audiences—the playwright Jerzy Jarocki famously staged the performance at Kraków’s Stary Theatre in 1964 and 1972, and Olowska presented a critically acclaimed adaptation of the work at …