Paulina Olowska - Artist Info

About Paulina Olowska

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    Polish artist Paulina Olowska’s realist paintings, drawings and collages engage with the cross-cultural concepts of consumerism and feminism. Olowska establishes a dialogue with the past, contrasting Eastern European socialist symbolism and Western popular culture.

    The iconic French discount fashion chain Tati was founded by a Tunisian immigrant at the end of the Second World War in Barbès, a mainly immigrant west African district at the foot of Montmartre in Paris. It closed its last store in 2020, the victim of changing consumer tastes and the emergence of more aggressive rivals with the same bulk-purchase, high-volume business model. Branded with the simplest possible slogan, ‘Tati, les plus bas prix’ (‘Tati, the lowest prices’),...

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