DON'T DEAF-Y ME
(I HEAR WHAT YOU'RE SAYING)
Poland
© Anna Tomaka
Exhibition Curator: Małgorzata Wakuluk
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VASA Exhibitions is presenting "DON'T DEAF-Y ME" (I HEAR WHAT YOU'RE SAYING)" by Polish photographer Anna Tomaka.
Her story is the quintessence of the truth about their lives and an act of great courage that she was able to open up to us a world that I have the impression that we cannot fully understand.
The heroines and heroes of this story also showed great courage. And not only when they decided on a difficult cochlear implant surgery, which is always associated with even more complicated rehabilitation. We also find their courage in the fact that they decided to open up to us and show a fragment of their real life, thus giving us a chance to better understand the problem that so often goes unnoticed by us in our daily rush.
(VASA Director note: This exhibition is important to me for I am deaf in one ear and have always feared losing the other. I know and feel what was said in this exhibition – thank you to Anna for her work and to Malgorzata for curating it.)
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© Anna Tomaka
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VASA, since 2008, has provided an international platform for individual and group exhibitions, collaborative exhibitions with various organizations and galleries and exhibitions that follow a particular theme or inquiry such as “Where Do We Go Now” curated by Rui Cepeda and the “Kharkiv School of Photography: Soviet Censorship to New Aesthetics” curated by Igor Manko and "Why??" curated by Sandeep Biswas.
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