The project This Blood Is for You was initiated by Franciszek Orłowski in 2016. At that time, the artist invited Warsaw residents from different cultural backgrounds to donate blood. The collected blood went to the Polish blood bank. The action was documented. The portraits of donors bear captions with their names and the countries they came from. Two years later the artist carried out a similar project as part of a festival organised by the Konstmuseum in Uppsala. The exhibition at MOCAK shows the third, Krakow-based and expanded version of this project.

Besides the documentation of the project, the exhibition catalogue also comprises essays, including Migration, Law, and the Image: Beyond the Veil of Ignorance by W.J.T. Mitchell.

Language: Polish, English
Managing editor: Betina Fekser
Texts: Betina Fekser (including interview with Franciszek Orłowski and participants of his project), Nora E. Huerta Flores, Iza Klementowska, W.J.T. Mitchell
Translation: Anda MacBride, Magda Witkowska
Design, DTP: Marta Mosiołek
Format: 170 × 230 mm
No. of pages: 144
ISBN: 978-83-65851-58-1
Year of publication: 2021

The catalogue has been published to accompany the exhibition:
Franciszek Orłowski
This Blood Is for You
Curator: Betina Fekser
MOCAK the Museum of Contemporary Art in Krakow
28.4–16.10.2022