Veronika Hapchenko’s works are now included in <Primary Forms>. The project — developed by the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw and the EFC Foundation — aims at bringing art education into the primary schools curriculum. Curated by Helena Czernecka and Sebastian Cichocki.
"Primary Forms is a periodic programme addressed to students from the fourth through the eighth grade of primary school, carried out by the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw and the Roman Czernecki Educational Foundation. Each year it features a set of new artworks — a box that contains a “dormant” exhibition, which can materialise at any moment in a form chosen by students (…). Conveyed in the form of artistic exercises and objects contained within the toolbox, the idea for this project is rooted in 20th-century artistic traditions. It references, among others, the work of Marcel Duchamp and his portable suitcase exhibition (...).
Veronika Hapchenko’s work was inspired by the 1905 book Thought Forms by Annie Besant, an English activist, writer, and philosopher. The author reflects on the shapes and colours of thoughts appearing in particular situations, brought on by emotions and world views, but also music. According to Besant, “thoughts are things” and affect both us and those around us. Hapchenko spent plenty of time looking at the illustrations and reading descriptions of thought forms from Besant’s book. She decided to create her own images. You will find them in the box. On the back of each of the 26 cards there’s a description of a thought – in the form of, for example, seeing a friend, a thirst for knowledge or the purring of a cat.(...)"
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