Slavs and Tatars. Too much Tlumacz

The first solo exhibition in Warsaw presenting the works of the Slavs and Tatars collective. These anonymous artists play a charming and humorous linguistic game with the cultural genealogy of the Slavic and Islamic universum.

Slavs and Tatars is an artistic collective and concurrently an intellectual project started in 2006. Its area of interest covers primarily the geographical region of Eurasia as a particular cultural formation, a territory that is home to various ethnic and religious factions, but still retaining its own extra-national ethos of the "east". The action of works and projects carried out by Slavs and Tatars is set between the former Berlin wall and the wall of China. Each subsequent undertaking takes on the form of a publication that accompanies the artists' extensive installations and series of objects, many of which make use of certain techniques of traditional craftsmanship and artistic practice.

Slavs and Tatars' first solo show in Warsaw, presented alongside the collective's project at New York's MoMA, is focused on language, more precisely, on various languages, their diverse forms and sounds. The basic material for many of the works produced by the collective is text, but the way it is processed strays from the conventions of post-conceptualism. Within the exhibition, reading regains its physical and spatial dimension, as the text evolves into an object of intellectual, aesthetic and sensory contemplation. The artists in the collective reveal their characteristic charm and humour in inscribing these linguistic games into the cultural genealogy of the trans-Slavic-Islamic universum. The exhibition TOO MUCH TŁUMACZ is accompanied by the presentation of the publication of the most recent Slavs and Tatars publication at the Raster bookshop.

Slavs and Tatars 
Too much Tlumacz