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- ItemFrom a Demarcation Line to a Living Archive. Documentary Exhibitions of the Foksal Gallery in the British Isles(Akademia Sztuk Pięknych w Gdańsku, 2022) Dzierżyc-Horniak, AnnaThis paper is an attempt to analyze artistic East-West contacts on the example of presence of the Warsaw Foksal Gallery in the British Isles. In 1979 and 1980, the theoretical achievements and documentation of the Gallery’s activities were exhibited at the Richard Demarco Gallery in Edinburgh, at the Third Eye Centre in Glasgow, at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London and at the Project Art Centre in Dublin. From today’s perspective, it is clear that within the Foksal Gallery an international contact was established in addition to the current cultural policy, which allowed the environment of its artists and art critics to be included in the international art circulation on a scale comparable at that time only to the Łódź Art Museum. In my paper I try to describe and highlight these contracts from the factual point of view, and then reflect on the way in which the gallery and its organizers act (tactics) and the capital generated by it (them), enabling such and not other actions. The key seems to be Wiesław Borowski (long-term gallery manager), Richard Demarco (Scottish art promoter who opened Britain to Polish art), Tadeusz Kantor, and on them I want to focus my attention. In this context, the basic thesis is that a network of personal friendships built above the “Iron Curtain” had an impact here, which then translated into institutional cooperation and concrete artistic projects.