Rogue Artists’ Studios presents: Junctures.

A solo exhibition by visual artist Małgorzata Drohomirecka, running from April 3 to April 30, 2025.

The opening night will feature a live performance directed by Magdalena Kij.

Both artists are rooted in Polish culture and are part of a generation that experienced the transition from communism to neoliberal democracy. They explore critical societal issues, including power structures, the intersection of state and church authority, and women’s roles in this transformation, viewed from Central and Eastern European feminist perspectives.

The exhibition presents a series of 14 paintings that intertwine the Stations of the Cross with the heroine’s journey as she confronts patriarchy. Using symbols from historical, religious, and popular culture, the works engage in a dialogue with quotes from Chiara Bottici’s Anarchafeminism. These textual interventions expand the anarchafeminist narrative, deepening the search for alternative ways of being and resisting dominant power structures.

Liberation in Progress by Magdalena Kij is a performance responding to the exhibition’s themes. Incorporating movement, projection, sound, lighting, handcrafted costumes, and found objects, the piece explores oppression, objectification, guilt, and rebellion—ultimately expressing hope for dismantling patriarchal structures.

With contributions from Evita Ziemele, Megan Brierley, and Matylda Augustynek, the performance weaves elements of protest and absurdity, challenging traditional narratives and inviting the audience into an immersive experience of transformation and resistance.

A video presentation will accompany the exhibition, featuring artists in conversation with Urszula Ulla Chowaniec, an expert in cultural studies.Together, they explore the exhibition’s critical themes, offering deeper insight into its narratives and context.

Venue: Rogue Artists’ Studios CIC
2-6 Barras Street, Openshaw, M11 1PU, Manchester
Private View: April 3, 2025, 6:00 PM – 9:00 PM
Live Performance: April 3, 2025, 7:00 PM.

Opening Hours: Weekends, 12:00 AM – 6:00 PM, or by appointment.
To schedule a visit, contact maggiestick.art@gmail.com

Junctures: An Anarchafeminist Narrative

                                                                                                                      “Although not all forms of feminism are anarchist, because not all of them are antiauthoritarian,
                                                                                                                        anarchism is by definition feminist.” 1

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Chiara Bottici

At the core of Junctures lies a confrontation with power structures—political, religious, and patriarchal. Through painting and performance, the exhibition opens a space where identities are deconstructed, systems of domination are challenged, and counter-narratives emerge.This idea reverberates through the artwork, which does not seek mere representation of women but a liberation from “woman” as a fixed category.

Junctures explores how identities are shaped, commodified, and resisted, echoing Bottici’s reflections: “An anarchafeminist philosophy must address not only the liberation of women, but also the liberation from ‘women’, that is, from a hetero- and cisnormative understanding of this category.” 2

The exhibition critiques the commodification of feminism and its entanglement with neoliberal power structures through both performative and visual elements.

The performance by Magdalena Kij embodies this strategy, challenging dominant narratives through live action, re-appropriation, and resistance.

The title Junctures reflects both ruptures and possibilities—a space between what is and what could be.

As Bottici states: “To those who argue that another world is possible, we should reply that another world is always in the making.” 3

Through painting, performance, and critical dialogue, this exhibition invites viewers to participate in the constant construction of alternatives. In a world where womanhood and queerness are co-opted, categorized, and sold, Junctures proposes a form of “disidentification”—a concept Bottici draws from José Esteban Muñoz: “Disidentification is about recycling and rethinking encoded meaning.” 4

This exhibition functions as a “counter-spectacle”. By combining visual art and live performance, Junctures dismantles existing hierarchies of power while offering alternative visions of gender, identity, and autonomy. It is not just a critique but an invitation to imagine and construct new ways of being.

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1. Chiara Bottici, Anarchafeminism (London: Bloomsbury Academic, Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2022; repr. 2024), 85.                                                                       2. Ibid., 87.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              3.Ibid., 166.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                4.Ibid., 174.