{"id":26749,"date":"2026-02-16T09:04:56","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T09:04:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mck.krakow.pl\/wystawy\/my-i-oni-zawila-historia-odmiennosci\/"},"modified":"2026-03-25T10:00:43","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T10:00:43","slug":"my-i-oni-zawila-historia-odmiennosci","status":"publish","type":"wystawy","link":"https:\/\/mck.krakow.pl\/en\/wystawy\/my-i-oni-zawila-historia-odmiennosci\/","title":{"rendered":"Us and Them. An intricate history of otherness"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

From images of mythical creatures and demons recorded in prints by modern masters like Martin Schongauer, Albrecht D\u00fcrer or Lucas van Leyden; from illustrations in books on monsters datable to the late 15th and early 16th centuries; from mass-produced engraving presenting exotic tribes of the new world; from 19th-century illustrations for manuals in medicine and natural sciences; from portraits, and political and life-style caricatures; from selected examples of 20th-century circus posters; from comic books on Batman and films directed by Tod Browning and F.W. Murnau, we have built an exhibitions on otherness.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Through these images we wish to speak about the history of prejudice, fear and fascination; about the history of human judgements on nature; about permanent divisions to “us” and “them”.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n

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The lives of the heroes of this exhibition \u2013 freaks and misfits \u2212 have in fact been dependent on an accidental configuration of religious beliefs, political line-ups, wars, disasters and the medical knowledge. In this history, neutral interest in a curio changes into fascination with a person of unusual appearance or a lone hero hiding in the shadow, or \u2013 as easily \u2013 into repressions against a madman or the enemy. No epoch judged “them” unambiguously.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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