Louisa Gagliardi
Dawid Radziszewski Gallery
A funny thing happened on my way to see Louisa Gagliardi’s exhibition “Raincheck”: I got lost in my own city. I’m born Warsovian, but the urban environment changes incredibly quickly. The district of Wola in western Warsaw, where Galeria Dawid Radziszewski is located, used to be industrial and working-class, but skyscrapers and office blocks seem to have been erected almost overnight, leaving just snippets of the old streetscape between them. The gallery is located in a cluster of new luxury “yuppiedrome” tower blocks and in trying to find it one could easily enter a gym, a beauty salon, or a