“Lifted Threads”, 2025, linen yarn, carpet hanger
The work was created for the exhibition “Willa siostra BWA. 60 lat galerii BWA w Zielonej Górze”, BWA Zielona Góra, 2025
Phot. Karolina Spiak / BWA Zielona Góra

Alicja Bielawska’s site-specific work has been created in the garden of the villa in Zielona Góra – the frames of the two carpet hangers, entwined with blue-tinged linen yarn, refer to the building’s recent function as a music school. They bring to mind staves or lines in a notebook, as well as the taut strings of instruments. The artist weaves a delicate, sometimes uneven thread, as if creating a space to continue recording history. The artist’s gesture and the use of yarn can also be related to the history of the workers of the dyeing and weaving factories in pre-war Gruenberg.