Traces of the Goddess
The Dancing Goddess
Monika Waraxa is conscious of her artistic choices and knows how to place them in various intellectual and spiritual contexts. Her paintings, which are extended by photo-video collages and three-dimensional objects, form a colorful series that becomes a journey, as...
Marija Gimbutas
Marija Gimbutas was born on January 23, 1921, in Vilnius. She was an American professor of archaeology at the University of California, Los Angeles. Her original and controversial Kurgan hypothesis pointed to the arrival in Europe of a population speaking...
Fresh Breeze—a Performance Dedicated to Anna and Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz
mThe performance took place at the opening of a group show, Balance of Power. In her curatorial text accompanying the exhibition, Marta Szulc writes, "We want to create a draft, stir the stagnant air, and oxygenate this place. Opening the windows and doors is a...
Awakening – a Camera Performance Inspired by an Encounter with Pina Bausch and the Sleeping Lady of Malta
Pina Bausch is one of the characters in my Ph.D. thesis. Therefore, reconstructing my energetic female lineage, I decided to “meet” her. I went to Ostuni to participate in the workshops Poesia e necessità nel movimento, run by Julie Stanzak, a dancer from the...
So, What Is It Like to Be a Dwarf?
Today, Sontag looks at me from the portrait. When I was painting her, I expected to see a heroine fighting with intellect, but a spirit appeared, who told me a story about an unfulfilled longing for a void existing beyond words. Solnit, in A Book of Migrations, evokes...
My Journey to the Sun with Hanna Orzechowska
"During this period, I realize a need that has long resided within me, not only to observe the phenomena of nature, but also the necessity to express my anxieties and feelings through art, to define myself through painting and creative activity, and the desire to...
The Intelligent Void
‘I regard consciousness as fundamental. I regard matter as derivative from consciousness. We cannot get behind consciousness. Everything that we talk about, everything that we regard as existing, postulates consciousness.’ Max Planck, The Observer, 1935 In the course...