Know what you want to know* Aleksandra Wałaszek & Samuel Stevens
Schedule
Sat Mar 07 2026 at 02:00 pm to 06:00 pm
UTC-06:00Location
244 Lake St, Oak Park, IL, United States, Illinois 60302 | Oak Park, IL
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Opening Reception:Know what you want to know
Aleksandra Wałaszek
Samuel Stevens
Saturday
March 07
2pm to 6pm
Works on display - March 07-April 04
Saturday 2pm to 6pm and by appointment
New works trace how accidents and external forces become part of personal realities. Landscapes and bodies mutate into algorithmic instructions – mediated or lived, aligned to shifting social logics, with reality scaled to fit. The artists ask through collage and video, weaving and carving: What is a promise never kept, an armistice of gazes, an ignored apology? The exhibition is informed by times of unrest, and unseen forces; they consider that an invitation to exit requires rehearsing the welcome again.
Wałaszek received an MFA in Fiber and Material Studies from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (2024) and an MA in Media Arts from the Eugeniusz Geppert Academy of Art and Design in Wrocław (2011). She is a recent recipient of the Fulbright Graduate Student Award, and ReSide Award. Her works have been exhibited nationally and internationally at various venues, and has participated in artist residencies. Her practice examines the coexistence of beauty and crudeness, hospitality and hostility, references architecture, and sources archives.
Stevens holds an MFA in Sculpture from the Eugeniusz Geppert Academy of Fine Art and Design, Wrocław (2020) and a BFA in Painting from the Kansas City Art Institute (2016). He is the co-founder, with Wałaszek, of Forma Otwarta, an artist-run space in Oleśnica, Poland, where he curates exhibitions and collaborative projects. His practice embraces site-specificity and experimental making, weaving together elements of craft, architecture, and ephemeral encounters to reimagine our relationship to space and objects.
Co-financed by the Minister of Culture and National Heritage of the Republic of Poland.
*This project was realized within the frame of the Adam Mickiewicz Institute’s ReSide program.
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