The Wyspiański’s “Wedding” is one of the most important and most frequently played plays in Polish repertoire, drastically describing Polish inability and complexes. The paradox is that by describing the wedding he didn’t mention even once the wedding table. After all, rural weddings are to this day a great theatrum culinae. Artist-painter Anna Królikiewicz and an expert in the field of theatre and a food critic Maciej Nowak are going to reconstruct this gastronomic universe.
Based on local products of Malopolska, after studying the sources of the era, Królikiewicz will present to the modern viewers the sensual and flavor vision of the Polish national weddings dating back 100 years.
The place itself will refer to the reconstruct of the multi-sensory experience at all levels of senses: before we taste the food, according to research on physiology, we experience the reality by color, steam, gloss, texture, temperature, smell, touch. In addition to the synesthesia, key to the art installation, is the key to the survival of Polish rural household from the late nineteenth and early twentieth century: fermentation, drying, smoking and a sour taste: so characteristic for Polish cuisine.
The work was shown at the XIII Quadrennial in Prague in June 2015 and August 29th at 14:30 during Jazdów Days, the Zbigniew Raszewski Theatre Institute decided to show “The wedding that never happened” in the open air, in a slightly modified form, different than in a gallery.
In the dialogue with the project the artist creates HONEY / MOON in her studio, which have grown out of the Wyspiański’s drama (where food also is one of the media) will be shown in an intimate space of an apartment at Cracow’s Salwator during the festival ArtBoom September 25th.
Photo: Anna Królikiewicz
The Wedding that never happened
