Abstract
The exhibition title 'White Spaces/BíLá Místa' refers to the absence and invisibility of minorities in majority culture. It focuses on artwork by Romani and pro-Romani artists who challenge and uncover the dynamics of dominant cultural and linguistic (both textual and visual) practices.
In some cases, the artists offer iconoclastic and subversive reinterpretations of already established and time-tested visual and literary works of art whilst appropriating certain forms in order to draw attention to the presence of stereotypes in art in ways that are at times self-critical with respect to their own artistic processes, shifts and developments. At other times, they investigate the extent to which minority narratives - particularly those of the Roma minority - are not inscribed into the functioning of cultural and other institutions.
A white space is an empty space on a map. White spaces are gaps in the history and present of culture and institutions.