POST SCRIPTUM English__ Feb 2021

I have always been interested
in the sources of violence
photo: Damian Andrzejewski
Alicja Stańska
Every day we are bombarded with violence. It has
become an inseparable part of news and television.
The newspapers day by day write about violent murders,
about acts of violence, often aimed at children. Now and
then a new extremely dangerous serial killer surfaces and
causes panic. The most famous ones, if they are caught
and charged, get the media’s attention, and become the
“heroes” of movies and books. Violence is incorporated
into the world order. Does it mean that the more we
get to know about it the less sensitive we are to it? Less
vigilant? Especially in the days of a global pandemic, the
violence is often quietly hidden behind the closed doors
of our neighbourhoods.
What then is the role of the artist in the process of
spreading awareness on growing violence? Do they, and if
so, how do they need to move their audience? According
to Stańska, they should take a closer look at the sources
of the crime.
The conversations with an incredible woman, an artist,
a mother, an art patron.
How did it happen, that after graduating from
a pre sti g ious e m broide r y sc hool you be cam e
a criminologist?
I have always been interested in the sources of violence,
ever since I was child. Not literally how one commits
a crime, how one kills, but what pushes a human being
to commit a crime. The observations from my childhood,
seeing some situations, reassured me that it is necessary
to seek the answer to my question: where does the evil
come from?
Where did the idea behind your exhibition Whose Fault,
which you are currently finishing off, come from? From
memories or maybe from a sense of mission?
The exhibition is a result of my thoughts that stem from
my childhood, but it is also the effect of my scientific
work. I have worked through tons of literature, I have
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