Magda Stawarska, Shimmering Moment, Lisbon, 2024. Courtesy of the artist and Yamamoto Keiko Rochaix, London / Photo: Magda Stawarska

“How does someone born in Poland or East Africa end up in northern England?” wonders artist Lubaina Himid. The straddled feeling of having roots in two places is something she shares with Magda Stawarska, her artistic collaborator in “Nets for Night and Day,” an exhibition at the Mudam in Luxembourg. The Turner Prize-winning Himid (1954, born in Zanzibar) and multidisciplinary Polish artist Stawarska (1976, born in Ruda Śląska) were colleagues-turned-friends while professors at the University of Central Lancashire, where Stawarska still runs the silkscreen/screenprinting workshops, and where Himid taught in the fine arts department up until 2021. For over twenty years, they have been supportive of each other’s work, whether toying with silkscreening or sound pieces.

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“Nets for Night and Day” is one of their many entwined projects. Just before Himid won the Turner Prize, Stawarska remixed and recomposed the soundtrack (from 2005) for Naming the Money, Himid’s installation of 100 cutouts. This was the pivot point at which trust was solidified in their art binary. They next........

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