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QUARRELSOME VOL. II / AKA SAINT WITCH / 2025 

The project is the result of study visit to the Kronika Center for Contemporary Art in Upper Silesia. It was carried out for the The Queen’s Breasts Carved from Wood exhibition inspired by Saint Agatha. It is one of the chapters of the long term series Quarrelsome in which I examine ways of commemorating the so-called witch hunts in the public sphere.

The project consists of bronze medal and soundscape. 

Seeking a connection between a witch and a martyr, I juxtaposes the story of St. Agatha with that of the so-called witch of Czeladź, Katarzyna Włodyczkowa. The starting point for the work is the city-commissioned Włodyczkowa monument unveiled in Czeladź in 2016, which was intended to commemorate her fate and at the same time serve as a tourist attraction. The 400-kilogram bronze sculpture shows a female figure on a broomstick. The accompanying plaque recalls the events that  led to her execution.

More than 250 years earlier, in 1740, Mayor Żądliński and Landwojt  Sojecki wrongfully accused a wealthy widow of having contact with the devil. The accusation was given credibility by the reputation of the woman from Czeladź, who was described as quarrelsome. As a result of a hastily conducted trial in the town square, the executioner beheads Włodyczkowa. Her body is burned and her ashes scattered on the nearby Borzecha hill, which today is covered with lush meadows and trees. Her property is seized by her accusers. Thanks to the intervention of her family, the woman is posthumously rehabilitated by the bishop's court.

The work presents an alternative vision of commemorating Katarzyna's story. The landscape after the execution is filled with meditative sounds of nature intertwined with sounds of the city collected in Upper  Silesia (including market squares in Czeladź and Bytom). 

The design of the bronze souvenir is directly linked to the figure of Saint Agatha as the patron saint of bell founders. It is inspired by holy medals, contemporary tourist stamps, and medieval pilgrim badges. Its form  refers to the cast iron jewellery products of the Gliwice Steelworks from  the collection of the Upper Silesian Museum in Bytom. On the reverse side, there is an engraved inscription with the name of Katarzyna and the year of her execution.

Related links:

2026 The Saint and The Witch, or Imagining The Real, essay for the The Queen’s Breast Carved from Wood exhibition catalogue

2025 The Queen's Breasts Carved from Wood | group exhibition description and documentation 

2022 “Witch” from Czeladź | Czeczota radio show at Radio Kapitał

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TRIALED BY WATER* / 2023 / ONGOING [excerpt]

Project carried out as part of Kolektyw Hydroza / Hydroza Collective first exhibition Who will be the last to cry? at Foto Pracownia Wschodnia in Warsaw, Poland. 

As a child, I loved being in the water. My parents often took me to the seaside. Water has become a symbol of relaxation for me. During the most difficult period of the pandemic, I was drawn to the river, the lake. I always associate water with rest. With a warm bath after a long, tiring day. With cleansing.

Through water, as a symbol of purification in the Christian religion, witches were verified. This was so-called water ordeal. The accused - bound, naked or in underwear - was thrown into the nearest water reservoir. Drowning was a proof of innocence, resurfacing resulted in torture and a trial that usually ended up at the stake.

The first water ordeals took place in ancient Mesopotamia. In medieval Europe, they were used in criminal and civil trials. This peculiar method based on ignorance of the physical laws, resurfaced in the early modern times during witch hunts. The church banned it at the beginning of 13th century, but city courts often used it in witchcraft trials. It was mostly used before the trial even started, as a kind of hint for a judge.

Although many clergymen and jurists pointed out the fallibility and brutality of the water ordeal, for the average person, it was unequivocal evidence of guilt.

I'd like to get some of that water back. Maybe a little bit for myself, maybe a little bit for the defendants. Through a series of (al)chemical procedures involving photographic emulsion, wandering through images from childhood, tarot or art history, I return to its meditative properties.

* The term comes from the files of the trial of Dorota Piotrowa, known as the Kashubian, accused of practicing witchcraft. The woman was tested by water. Thrice bathed, three times she came to the surface. As a result, she was imprisoned and tortured, source: AP w Bydgoszczy, AmN, ref. no. 131. Protocols of trials conducted against witches before the jury court of Nowe, 1689-1747.

Related links:

Hydroza Collective instagram 

2023 Water is an alchemical substance | music mix | Czeczota radio show at Radio Kapitał 

Music lecture on water as alchemical substance inspired by txt of Astrida Neimanis Hydrofeminism: Or, On Becoming a Body of Water.

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QUARRELSOME / 2022-2023 / ONGOING [excerpt]

Project carried out during Jastrzębska School of Documentary Photography concentrating on Upper Silesia region in Poland. 

It is1736. Czeladź, a small city in upper Silesia, Poland, is flooded.

As a result of heavy rainfall, the Brynica River overflows, engulfing the fields and houses of the inhabitants. According to the legend, the water stops in front of the house of a rich "quarrelsome" widow, Katarzyna Włodyczkowa.

A few years later, the land mayor Bartłomiej Sojecki and the mayor Żądliński accuse the woman of witchcraft. As a result of a quickly prepared trial, she is sentenced to death. The land mayor court calls the hangman who beheads Włodeczkowa in the market square. The body is burned on Mount Borzesze, and the woman's property is taken by her accusers.

Włodeczkowa's sons appeal against the verdict, referring the case to the Prince Bishop. The Wiślica officjal sent to Czeladź questions the criminal proceedings, which turn out to be invalid without consulting the clerical court. Symbolic penalties are imposed on those involved in murder of Włodeczkowa. In the eyes of the law, the woman is rehabilitated but only in this regard. Among convicted for failing to help was Katarzyna's relative, probably her brother. A few years later, he is elected mayor of Czeladź.

More than 250 years later, another mayor of the town orders a monument to commemorate Katarzyna Włodyczkowa, as well as to make a new touristic spot.

Jacek Kiciński designs the statue of a woman on broom. The figure is planned to be placed in front of the church, but the residents of Czeladź are dissatisfied. In consequence, it has been “hibernated" in the sculptor's workshop for over 8 years. It was only in 2016 that the monument was ceremonially unveiled on the outskirts of the market square.

I'm coming to Czeladź to do a street survey. I ask one of the ladies what she thinks about this sculpture. “Go do something useful, girl,” I get the answer from her.

The history of the monument becomes a starting point for revising the presence of a witch in local and global history. I study her representations, examining old propaganda woodcuts and bizarre Halloween costumes, or elements from the so-called beauty industry, as well as AI-generated content based on text prompts referring to stereotypes of a witch. Masks, prostheses, artificial nails, imaginary souvenirs serve me as tools to navigate the transformations of a witch throughout the centuries.

Related links:

2022 Jastrzębska School of Documentary Photography publication

Publication consisting of projects of all participants of Jastrzębska School of Documentary Photography 2022

2022 “Witch” from Czeladź | Czeczota radio show at Radio Kapitał 

A record of my trip to Czeladź, where the monument of a “witch” is being situated. 

2023 Czeczota radio show at Radio Kapitał with project descriptions 

An episode dedicated to projects from Jastrzębska School of Photography revolving around mythological themes. 

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THE BOOK OF FRIENDSHIP / 2020-2021

The Book of Friendship is a result of almost 10 years of my research into modern esotericism. It was published by 19Rivers collective in collaboration with Ton Magazine/Lodz Film School and On Paper Lodz. It was designed as a deck loosely inspired by the Maior Arcana of Tarot and Stammbuch (eng. book of friendship), which from the XVIth century was a popular form of small diary. Stammbuch was also used by the middle class as a form of collective family diary.

My project mixes XIX-th century spiritism with New Age spirituality, pop culture cartoon characters, biedermeier period references, memes’ inspired content, Tarot and everyday life events in order to create a network of visual intersections. 44 images create 22 pairs (A and B) which coexist in a state of friendship (here I present a selection of images). The whole project is conceived as an eternally expanding system of references. It is open for change and flexible. Cards can be used for meditation. Deck originally comes with a dedicated box, but it also functions as a mobile, domestic or gallery exhibition. 

This collection of images depicts my own struggle (and also the universal craving) for meaning. By mixing archival photos from spiritisic séances, my notes, spontaneous snapshots, works from my different projects and seemingly trivial observations, I was trying to capture the chaotic, yet somehow complete and rational (in terms of esoteric beliefs) reality. It stems from my fascination with spritistic séances which were usually held in middle class living rooms and are the best example (in Western world) of the fascinating intertwining of everyday life with magic and the occult.

Related links:

2021 Art Bibuła Festival / Paper Beats Rock - video book presentation   

2021 Ton Magazine / 19Rivers workshops 

2020 - ongoing Tarotiada radio show / Radio Kapitał 

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MAJOR ARCANA OF FUNGI / 2022

Major Arcana of Fungi is an interdisciplinary project by Edka Jarząb inspired by tarot cards and the concept of the great mycelium. Part of the work is a 22-hour radio broadcast commissioned by the Radio Art Zone festival in Luxemburg. 

Twenty-two hours include a story about phenomena from the world of mushrooms, presented in the form of archetypes known as the 22 Major Arcana of Tarot. The participating artists were asked to interpret a Tarot card they drew or chose from the pack in sound form and create polyphony together.

You can listen to the whole 22-hour broadcast here.

Me and Ania Kamecka, as hosts of Tarotiada podcast in Radio Kapitał, were asked to prepare a set of sound introductions to each card of Major Arcana. 

Me together with a musician Lotus Reaction (Piotr Sobiecki) created sound interpretations of the selected Major Arcana, which are a mixture of experimental music and a poetic description of one of the aspects of the card. The inserts were woven between individual pieces of music, constituting a kind of introduction to the card and at the same time a bridge between individual archetypes.

There will be a special deck of 22 Major Arcana of Fungi designed in collaboration with an artist Zofia Kuligowska. 

The project was performed in Sanatorium of Sound Festival in Sokołowsko, in Lower Silesia, Poland, as a soundtrack for installation by Edka Jarząb placed in an abandoned health resort - Brehmer’s sanatorium - build in XIX-th century. 

Related links:

2022 detailed project description by Edka Jarząb

2022 interview with Edka Jarząb and Zofia Kuligowska / Going. MORE [PL]

2022 installation description at Sanatorium of Sound Festival [PL]

2020-2023 Tarorotiada radio show at Radio Kapitał [PL]

Participants:

FOQL

Martyna Poznańska

Gosia Wrzosek

Kasia Kałaniuk

Zosia Hołubowska 

Ania Jurkiewicz

ASTMA

Mario de Vega

Marek Głogowski

Joanna Halszka Sokołowska

Mila Nowacka

Milena Soporowska

Ania Kamecka 

Dawid Bargenda 

turn1a

Sara Gutkowska

Wojtek Bernatowicz

Ernesta Malina

Lotus Reaction

Reza Kellner

Marcin Sojka

Deadly Firend

Hortus Conclusus

Anna Kulakowska

Zofia Kuligowska

Paweł Kreis

Anna Szafranowska i grupa śpiewu tradycyjnego z Sejn

Maja Sadel

All photos by Edka Jarząb. 

Sun Card by Zofia Kuligowska. 

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Sputnik Photos Mentoring Programme Graduates 2019-2020 / group exhibition / Social Center of Photography / Warsaw / 2021 

Artists: Ada Novicka / Andrzej Tworkiewicz / Anna Hartman-Ksycińska / Daria Izworska / Dimitri Molev / Filip Piotrowicz / Filip Rybicki / Jagoda Malanin / Justyna Streichsbier / Joanna Bubak / Joanna Szpak-Ostachowska / Martyna Nitkowska / Marcin Piekałkiewicz / Marzena Hans / Milena Soporowska / Monika Schreiber / Sayam Ghosh / Zuzanna Głód

Mentors: Jan Brykczyński / Karolina Gembara / Michał Łuczak / Rafał Milach  / Adam Pańczuk / Agnieszka Rayss

Curator: Michał Łuczak

Organiser: Sputnik Photos collective 

Partners: Social Center of Photography Chłodna 20 and Archeology of Photography Foundation

Graphic design: Daria Abibok

Documentation: courtesy of Sputnik Photos collective  

Related links:

2019-2021 Handmade Spiritismus | project carried out during Sputnik Photos Mentoring Programme

2021 NO.9 | book presenting projects by Sputnik Mentoring Programme graduates 2019/2020

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NO.9 - SPUTNIK MENTORING PROGRAMME GRADUATES BOOK 2019/2020

Book “No9” presents projects by Sputnik Mentoring Programme graduates 2019/2020. It consists of 18 stories created during the pandemic. Intimate domestic narratives, photographic activism, esoteric studies, problems of specific social groups and analysis of landscape affected by humans- all series created in a groundbreaking year 2020 give us insight into these unique and ambiguous times.

Artists: Ada Novicka / Andrzej Tworkiewicz / Anna Hartman-Ksycińska / Daria Izworska / Dimitri Molev / Filip Piotrowicz / Filip Rybicki / Jagoda Malanin / Justyna Streichsbier / Joanna Bubak / Joanna Szpak-Ostachowska / Martyna Nitkowska / Marcin Piekałkiewicz / Marzena Hans / Milena Soporowska / Monika Schreiber / Sayam Ghosh / Zuzanna Głód

Editors: Karolina Gembara and Agnieszka Rayss

Design: Dasha Abibok

Coordinators: Marzena Michałek - Dąbrowska

Documentation: Anka Gregorczyk / FOTOSPOT and Centrala Gallery

  Related links:

2019-2021 Handmade Spiritismus | project carried out during Sputnik Photos Mentoring Programme

2021 Sputnik Photos Mentoring Programme Graduates group exhibition | Social Center of Photography | Warsaw 

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FAKE NEW - ZIN PRODUCED BY PRZESTRZEŃ ROBOCZA AND FOTOSPOT / CENTRALA GALLERY  

Zin was produced as part of FAKE NEW group exhibition held in FOTOSPOT /  Centrala gallery in cooperation with Przestrzeń Robocza.

Publicaction presents the works of eight authors who create or expose false narratives; interpret the modern definition of "normality" or "new normality", raise the subject of fake news, conspiracy theories, virtual reality, the recent experience of an epidemic, including the closure and "transfer" of life into an online realm.

Artists: Ioannis Anastasiou  / Joanna Bubak / Basia Budniak / Oktawian Jurczykowski / Magdalena Kasperczak / Agnieszka Sejud / Milena Soporowska / Jiang Xue 

Documentation: courtesy of Kultura u Podstaw / Michał Sita and FOTOSPOT and Centrala Gallery

Related links:

2021 FAKE NEW group exhibition | FOTOSPOT and Centrala Gallery

2021 Review of FAKE NEW zin by Michał Sita | Kultura u Podstaw [PL]

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FAKE NEW / group exhibition / FOTOSPOT Centrala gallery / Poznan / 2021 

Artists: Ioannis Anastasiou  / Joanna Bubak / Basia Budniak / Oktawian Jurczykowski / Magdalena Kasperczak / Agnieszka Sejud / Milena Soporowska / Jiang Xue 

Curator: Anka Gregorczyk 

Organiser: Przestrzeń Robocza and FOTOSPOT Centrala gallery 

Documentation: courtesy of FOTOSPOT / Centrala gallery

"What Donald Trump, an intelligent refrigerator, remote work, 5G and microplastics have in common? Dynamic technological, environmental and social changes and huge amount of information make it increasingly difficult to assess what is real or false. Contrary to scientific facts, new and unverifiable theories emerge. Fabricating information and disseminating even the most irrational theories has become a child's play. How to respond to them? Should we fight them by opposing facts, expose them, censor them, or maybe ridicule and downplay them? When we leave them on their own, will they eventually become part of the "new normality"? 

We present the works of eight authors who create or expose false narratives; interpret the modern definition of "normality" or "new normality", raise the subject of fake news, conspiracy theories, virtual reality, the recent experience of an epidemic, including the closure and "transfer" of life into an online realm. "

Photographs presented in ZIN were selected by Franek Ammer and Agata Połeć from Przestrzeń Robocza as part of FAKE NEW OPEN CALL. The exhibition was curated by Anka Gregorczyk from FOTOSPOT and Centrala gallery.

Related links:

2021 FAKE NEW Zin documentation 

2021 FAKE NEW in FOTOSPOT Centrala gallery 

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HANDMADE SPIRITISMUS / 2019-2021 / ONGOING [excerpt]

project carried out during Sputnik Photos Mentoring Programme 2019-2020

Tutor: Agnieszka Rayss

A hand signifies the causative powers. It is also involved in making contact – with people, with the environment. When we make something with our own hands, it always has an added value. 

In the tarot, the hands hold the four symbols of the elements that structure our reality.

A spiritual séance begins with creating a circle by touching each other's hands.

The casts of the spirits' hands created during the séances served as evidence, testimony to the presence of such spirits.

According to chiromancy, our life is written on the palm of our hand.

Finally, various rituals require manual actions. Thanks to the involvement of the body, abstract thought is combined with matter.

During the pandemic, the hand became an ominous refrain – a source of infection, disease.

From then on, I started thinking about it even more often.

My aim was to document homemade “rituals” and at the same time to examine modern forms of DIY home esotericism. I wanted to document people's search for structure and meaning in astrology, tarot, spiritualism, numerology and runes. My starting point were the 19th century spiritualistic séances organised in private homes, without a clergyman as an official mediator.

The contact-restricting pandemic inadvertently turned my attention to myself, inwards. I began to follow the subtle signs of esoteric interests that I have developed from my childhood years until now. My handmade spiritual knitting is created using materials from my childhood, an assortment of stationery and five-and-dime shops, nail art items, souvenirs. The project is a record of the beginning of this journey and at the same time a prelude to presenting the stories of others like me. 

Related links:

2021 Sputnik Photos Mentoring Programme graduates group exhibition | Social Center of Photography | Warsaw

2021 NO.9 | book presenting projects by Sputnik Mentoring Programme graduates 2019/2020

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a)Alien Hand Syndrome / from Schadenfreude series / 2017 [Domestic Violence project]

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TAROTIADA RADIO SHOW / Radio Kapitał 

Tarotiada is an invitation into the initiation of The Fool – 22 cards of Maior Arcana of Tarot - divination deck of cards known for hundreds of years – becomes a starting point for cultural ad music explorations. Every broadcast of the series is dedicated to one specific card and analysis of different faces of divination – mystical, entertaining, scientific and many more. Hosts: Milena Soporowska / Ania Kamecka 

You can listen to all the episodes here [PL] 

Related links:

2022 Major Arcana of Fungi | collaborative project by Edka Jarząb

2020 Ace of Swords card reconstruction | group exhibition | Serce Człowieka | Warsaw Gallery Weekend 

2019-2021 Handmade Spirtismus | project carried out during Sputnik Photos Mentoring Programme

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Pandemic consequence: dreams / group exhibition / Warsaw Gallery Weekend 2020 

Artists: Michalina Chłodzińska, Milena Soporowska, Martyna Bolanowska, Adam Kozicki, Kamil Pierwszy, Iwo Panasiewicz, Katarzyna Olma, Paweł Olszewski, Aleksandra Liput, Jan Jurczak, Yui Akiyama, Planeta, Jan Porczyński, Zuza Piekoszewska, Joanna Krajewska, Øleg&Kaśka, Oskar Pawełko, Jan Możdżyński, Weronika Wysocka, Kaja Rata, Agnieszka Antkowiak, Laura Ociepa, Zofia Pałucha, Marceli Adamczyk, Matejko Michał, Mateusz Wójcik, Jakub Gliński, TissueHunter, Katarzyna Balicka, Wojtek Skrzypczyński, Jan Eustachy Wolski, Paweł Żukowski, Magdalena Lazar, Wiktoria Walendzik, Marta Niedbał, Aleksandra Kompała, Joanna Woś. Antonina Widt, Agnieszka Mastalerz, Konrad Żukowski, Maciej Nowacki, Grzegorz Demczuk

Organiser: Galeria Serce Człowieka

Partners: Nowy Świat Muzyki

The coming change caused by the pandemic first manifested itself in dreams. At the beginnings of psychology, Freud assumed that one must turn to them - to bring out of the unconscious sphere in order to expose one's desires, cravings, fears. Today, many psychologists claim that such attitude is wrong, and that what is instinctive allows us to live smoothly. Our mind is a cosmos in which too much concentration, too much exposure of certain components, manipulation of the unconscious makes us lose ourselves.Capitalism has always used human problems as a tool to exploit social groups. These issues has been pointed out, conceptualized or created as new ones. Through over-interpretation it appropriated the unconscious zone for these purposes. As a result, our subconsciousness ceased to be pure, free.

The pandemic as a time when many everyday phenomena forced by work were changed or pushed aside, revealed this state through dreams. For art, the pure unconsciousness is a natural matter of action that the "Pandemic consequence: dreams" exhibition wishes to selflessly reveal.

The exhibition was part of the Warsaw Gallery Weekend 2020.

On other pictures: corset by Atelier Planeta and drawing by Martyna Bolanowska.

Ace of Swords_trial_03 

Ace of Swords in Tarot stands for intellectual power and mental agency. It refers to our rationality and intellectual processing. My work was created during the  pandemic time when rational structures are being questioned. 

Ace of Swords is part of my Handmade Spiritismus project, which focuses on domestic esoteric practices and DIY spirituality. It derives from my fascination with XIX-th century spiritistic séances which were mainly held in private houses as somewhat intimate rituals of the middle class and bourgeoisie. Their main goal was to connect with the non-material world. Séances were organised without the official spiritual agent such as priest and usually with the use of everyday objects. 

I look for vernacular equivalents of such “séances” in modern times, focusing on different divination techniques – for example tarot. 

During the pandemic time, the hand became a recurring refrain – just like in a series of tarot aces which symbolise 4 basic elements. Hand acts as a controller. It proudly holds the emblem of its power. 

My Ace of Swords is a domestic reconstruction, a trial version of home-manufactured recreation of “mystical truths of divination” with the use of the simplest and easily accessible materials. 

Related links:

2019-2021 Handmade Spirtismus | project carried out during Sputnik Photos Mentoring Programme

Tarotiada | radio show | Radio Kapitał 

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And if darkness is more than blackness, what else could it be / group exhibition / Centre for Creative Activities / Ustka-Slupsk / 2020

Artists: Lena Achtelik / Martyna Borowiecka / Mateusz Hajdo / Kaja Redkie / Milena Soporowska / Łukasz Stokłosa

Curator: Marta Kudelska

Documentation: courtesy of BGSW (more photos HERE)

The exhibition “And if darkness is more than blackness, what else could it be?” is a record of phantom delusions of the past, and a register of whispers, illusions and hallucinations. The idea behind the show is an uncompleted spiritual session with a host of apparitions and spectres which come to life through the works of invited artists. A seance has always been conducted according to pre-established rules; its course meticulously planned, executed and controlled. Any contact with the “other side” is, by definition, extraordinary, but it can also get out of control and seriously distort the participants’ judgement of reality. Often perceived as little more than romantic and innocent games or attempts to spin nostalgic yarns about ghosts and spectres that might also send shivers down your spine, spiritual sessions in fact aim at stimulating discussion on the boundaries of imagination and perception of the past – areas currently undergoing a profound transformation.

The works of the artists invited to the exhibition – Lena Achtelik, Martyna Borowiecka, Mateusz Hajdo, Kaja Redkie, Milena Soporowska and Łukasz Stokłosa – reveal the remains of the late, half-dead, half-living tissue. Each artist performs the rite of passage in their own way, each of them conjures up spirits and tries to harness the darkness but combining the present with the fading past. Some of them visit dark, stuffy rooms with 19th century cabinets, trying to find any vestiges of sticky ectoplasm and reconstruct the process of its formation. They bring to light the remains and shreds found. As in a classic horror novel, that which is forgotten or hidden at the bottom of a dark trunk in the attic returns to haunt the living.

All of the invited artists perform lunatic and unconscious activities which are aimed to trigger the dark and uncontrollable side of our imagination. Darkness is associated primarily with shelter for all kinds of conspirators, charlatans, demons and wraiths. In this eerie realm, the human body appears as a symbol of fragility, vanity and transience. And the moment of entering this strange abyss is a silent consent to accept new and suspend old norms and truths. In this context, the exhibition “And if darkness is more than blackness, what else could it be?” lures visitors to take a perilous stroll through the dark areas of their own imagination. Here the visitor encounters that which is undefined and alien, and yet at the same time strangely familiar.

Related links:

2020 Marta Kudelska guided curatorial tour 

2020 exhibition review | SZUM Magazine 

2019 Domestic Violence project 

2019 Domestic Violence | individual exhibition | FOPA Gallery | Żyrardów

2019 Domestic Violence | text for Rooms exhibition catalogue | Fotofestiwal - International Festival of Photography in Lodz [PL/ENG]

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a)The Receptionist / from Helena series / 2015 [Domestic Violence project]

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BURL RADIO SHOW / Radio Kapitał 

A burl is a tree growth that is considered a defect, which paradoxically creates outstandingly beautiful and extraordinary patterns. It is often used in furniture design. For me it is a synonym of beautiful anomaly, seeing the charm in something that, in a general perspective, is viewed as an aberration, deviation from the standard, a flaw. My radio show is a tribute to all these “beautiful anomalies”, which can take form of animate and inanimate beings, places, concepts and practices.

Host: Milena Soporowska 

You can listen to all the episodes here [PL]

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Domestic Violence / individual exhibition / FOPA Gallery / Żyrardów / 2019

Documentation: Paweł Świątek

More about the project HERE.

Related links:

2019 Domestic Violence, text for Rooms exhibition catalogue, Fotofestiwal - International Festival of Photography in Lodz [PL/ENG]