Allan Sekula

Jointly developed by M HKA and the KU Leuven, this long-term, interdisciplinary research project focuses on a specific, yet complex body of work; multifaceted and variably installable, unfinished and open-ended: Ship of Fools / The Dockers' Museum (2010-2013) by artist and theorist Allan Sekula (1951-2013). Informed by the research of the team members, the project continues to evolve in a succession of research outputs, such as this digital platform.

Allan Sekula. Collective Sisyphus

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Untitled (Poland Archive, nr. 46), 1981

Photography , 23.9 x 18 cm

ink, paper

STRIKE DAY IN POLAND (It's 8 o'clock and the dock gates at Gdansk close as the workers begin their four hour strike. And below the leader of "Solidarity" Lech Walesa leaves the shipyard and is greeted by women workers at the end of the four hour stoppage) [as indicated on reverse of photograph], black-and-white photograph, January 1981, 23.9 x 18 cm. Date of purchase by Allan Sekula unknown. [AM/Keystone 3128/900660].

On the backside of the photograph:

January 1981

STRIKE DAY IN POLAND

Industrial workers throughout Poland, held a four hour stoppage in protest over the governments failure to support the five-day week asked for by the Unions.

Photo shows: It's 8 o'clock and the dock gates at Gdansk close as the workers begin their four hour strike. And below the leader of "Solidarity" Lech Walesa leaves the shipyard and is greeted by women workers at the end of the four hour stoppage.

AM/Keystone 3128/900660.

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