1/13/2023 0 Comments Walking through the villeWe pass an open window through which Disco-Polo, folksy 1990s Polish pop music, is playing, and Olowska stops so we can listen. We visit a 1930s-era patisserie and cabaret with grotesque paintings on the walls, proscenium intact a coffee shop with 1960s-era industrial stools, a cafe that sells rainbow gelatin cocktails in parfait glasses. The squares of Krakow, like so many European cities, now have Zara and H&M in their ornate and crenelated buildings.īut Olowska takes delight in showing off the layers of the city that have resisted globalization, and she gives an enthusiastic tour of the lost aesthetics that she uses in her art. Some Brutalist buildings have been turned into work spaces, others have been covered with advertisements. ![]() The factory of Oskar Schindler has been preserved here, but his villa looks abandoned. We explored the city on bicycles, a tour of selective memorialization. Her round doll’s face was framed with a kerchief in primary colors, and she had a faceted red rhinestone heart on a gold chain around her neck. She wore a long flowing navy blue dress and has short dark hair. ![]() I met Olowska on an afternoon in late May in Krakow, where she now lives part-time.
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