Sharon Lockhart: Little Review
The Polish Pavilion at The 57th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia2017
Photo by Jens Ziehe, Berlin, Courtesy of Sharon Lockhart, neugerriemschneider, Berlin, and Gladstone Gallery, New York and Brussels.
Artist Sharon Lockhart represented Poland at the 2017 Venice Biennial with her work Little Review, the title of which was based on the name of a weekly supplement for the young readers, Mały Przegląd (Little Review), published from 1926 to 1939 in the Polish daily newspaper Nasz Przeglad (Our Review). Lockhart's Little Review memorializes the Jewish-Polish pedagogue Janusz Korczak, who founded the weekly and promoted the notion of children's rights.
For the exhibition, Lockhart translated and published 29 issues of the newspaper with the aid of 47 girls from the Youth Center for Socio-Therapy in Rudzienko, Poland, with whom she has been collaborating since 2009. The girls were also the protagonists of the film Rudzienko, which premiered at the biennial and appeared in a series of photographs shown in the exhibition space. Escher GuneWardena collaborated with Lockhart in the design of the pavilion.
For the exhibition, Lockhart translated and published 29 issues of the newspaper with the aid of 47 girls from the Youth Center for Socio-Therapy in Rudzienko, Poland, with whom she has been collaborating since 2009. The girls were also the protagonists of the film Rudzienko, which premiered at the biennial and appeared in a series of photographs shown in the exhibition space. Escher GuneWardena collaborated with Lockhart in the design of the pavilion.
