to be in a time of war (I keep changing my address but war never loses my scent)

2025

bricks, stones, MDF board, cast silicone rubber, pigments, ceramics.
55 x 120 x 77 cm and 40 x 30 x 30 cm

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Exhibition "Animal elegance", at Pracownia Portretu in Łódź, Poland, on view 10.10. - 7.11.2025

curated by Magdalena Wiśniowska

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The title of the installation comes from a text by Etel Adnan, first published 2004, where she reflects the agony of witnessing a war - taking place physically elsewhere, but the pain seeps into everything. 

In this rather intuitive piece I am giving form to the raw immediate experience of living in Germany, a state complicit in a genocide in Palestine. Many masks have fallen recently, and the times we live in are of a violent clarity. The contrast between the interests of the powerful ones and the vast majority of living beings has grown even starker, escalations over escalations. Between daily news of horrors and the banality of the business-as-usual we are standing our ground, how? It includes care, learning, sensing despair's soft long thin tongue flicking from below sometimes. There is a lot to be done and undone.

All photographs by Maciej Luczak, many thanks!

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