During her explorations of Warsaw, Hadassah Emmerich was particularly fascinated with the city inhabitants’
constant striving to regain the war-destroyed authenticity – the reconstruction of historical buildings on the
basis of surviving fragments, or vintage style reconstruction if no documentation had survived – as well as
the issue of museum objects that had gone missing or changed their location. Fragments of the Kordegarda
show inspired by the artist’s wanderings around Warsaw can also be interpreted as an intuitive attempt to
reconstruct the local style.
Read the full text by curator Magda Kardasz (PDF, you may need Acrobat Reader to access the file).