Spatial installation with elements of performative action
121.55 kg of potassium nitrate
55.55 kg of coal
44.20 kg of sulphur
A military secretarial desk, chair, brass ashtray
Four soldiers in the Polish Army of the rank of corporal
Bâton Fleur-de-lisé – a baton, a sign of military grandeur, its phallic shape referring to masculinity. Napoleon once said that every French soldier carried in his satchel a baton of the Marshal of France, or that he could be promoted from a private to a marshal. This points to the illusory nature of pursuing goals, goals which are in fact quite abstract.
B. 1988, daughter of a soldier and a physiotherapist. In 2011 graduated from the University of Arts in Poznań (BFA, major in photography), in 2013 – from the Faculty of Media Art and Stage Design of the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw (MFA, major in activities in space). Participated in numerous group exhibitions, including Performance Space, London; Centrum för fotografi, Stockholm; MOCAK, Kraków. Artistic director of the festival newspaper “Na horyzoncie”, 13th IFF T-Mobile Nowe Horyzonty. Since September 2013 assistant to professor Mirosław Bałka in the Studio for Activities in Space at the Faculty of Media Art of the Academy in Warsaw.