Museum of Hysterics

This bronze plaque is fixed on a pedestal in the floor by the entrance to CoCA in Toruń. The plaque holds a sign that reads: “Leszek Przyjemski. Nonexistent Nodding Gallery Yes 1970–1974 / Institute of Indifferent Studies by the Nonexistent Nodding Gallery Yes / Die Gaskammer der Kunst /1981–2012 / Museum of Hysterics 1968–2012”, and below in smaller print: “Museum of Contemporary Art Signs of Time in Toruń / June 2012”.
By the plaque, there are potted ferns and wooden bollards with red decorative string separating the piece from the hall. Such aesthetics is an ironic reference to the rhetoric of formal ceremonies of socialism, distancing itself from the autonomous modernist art. [E. Jarosz]