girls + eggs (01.30 – 03.08.24) 

Agnieszka Szostek
Agnieszka Szostek is the co-founder of C U at Sadka. She is a Polish visual artist based in Berlin and Cracow. Her practice blends homemade printing techniques, a tender mix of artificial and natural elements, fading collages, and online aesthetics. Her materials are sophisticated, but still close to human touch. Recent exhibitions include PPS: it’s a progressive fantasy {...} co-curated with Tristan Deschamps at C U at SADKA in Cracow, PL 2021, “A Californian Plumber” at Fugitif in Leibzig DE, 2020, “DIO E’ C’” Ultrastudio Pescara, IT 2020, “Die Bestehende Realität (Prozess und Tanz)” video presentation at Gallery Bark Berlin DE 2020, “Home Invasion” 24/7 online on Arbyte On Screen, at arebyte in London 2019, “Come What May. Permanent Assumptions,” Zner Kunstraum, Leipzig DE 2019, “État Temporaire: Mutagenèse,” 2019, DOC!, Paris, FR, Unselect/Unlucid, (s), 2019 KleineHumboldt Galerie, Berlin. 

Siona Wilson
Siona Wilson teaches at the College of Staten Island as well as the Graduate Center. Her research interests are grounded in issues of sexual difference, race and sexuality at the intersection of art and politics in the twentieth century. Author of Art Labor, Sex Politics: Feminist Effects in 1970s British Art and Performance (Minnesota, 2014), she has published on photography, experimental film, video, sound and performance art, in edited collections and journals, including Art History, October, Oxford Art Journal and Third Text. Her recent curatorial projects include I can’t breathe, at the Gallery of the College of Staten Island, featuring works in video and photography by Nona Faustine, Patricia Silva, Emma Wolukau-Wanambwa and Kara Walker with a timeline of images documenting the activist group, Staten Islanders Against Racism and Police Brutality (SIARPB). She also co-curated Sexing Sound: Aural Archives and Feminist Scores (with Valerie Tevere and Catherine Karl) at the James Gallery, New York. Professor Wilson’s new research relates to documentary, gender and state violence in a diverse range of geographic sites, including Algeria, Britain, “Kurdistan,” Iraq and Vietnam, focusing on episodes from the 1930s to the present.