POST SCRIPTUM English__ Feb 2021
POST SCRIPTUM - Independent MAGAZINE OF LITERATURE & ARTS - English version. POST SCRIPTUM - Niezależne pismo artystyczno-literackie tworzone przez polsko-brytyjski zespół entuzjastów, artystów i dziennikarzy. Zapraszamy do lektury.
POST SCRIPTUM - Independent MAGAZINE OF LITERATURE & ARTS - English version.
POST SCRIPTUM - Niezależne pismo artystyczno-literackie tworzone przez polsko-brytyjski zespół entuzjastów, artystów i dziennikarzy. Zapraszamy do lektury.
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foto: Dominik Hajder<br />
You closed the crime scenes in cages…<br />
A cage is a symbol of enslavement, especially when a child<br />
is raised in one home with an executioner. Then a cage<br />
becomes the metaphor for punishment of the crime. All<br />
identified serial killers were given life sentences and/or<br />
sentenced to death. It can symbolize mental enslavement.<br />
My collection was presented in 9 vintage cages for birds<br />
and one over 100-year-old dollhouse. Every criminal got<br />
their cage. It is a scene in which we play out the criminal<br />
act. The act, which is the last stage of the violence that<br />
started during childhood at the hands of the closest ones.<br />
I can imagine that it was time-consuming and laborious<br />
to create this project. Alicja, how do you work with<br />
embroidery?<br />
I can be invested in the work for eight, ten hours, after<br />
four I realise that I have been sitting in complete silence,<br />
it seems impossible that so much time has passed. My<br />
work requires full concentration.<br />
How long does it take you to work on an exhibition?<br />
The gathering of materials, literature, documents,<br />
analysis, meetings with different experts, and then the<br />
creative process?<br />
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To be honest, I have been invested in the topic of<br />
psychopath’s minds for twelve years! I analyse, break it<br />
into small parts, ask questions, find details. I have been<br />
working on this exhibition for two years, but I think that<br />
it will take me at least six more months to finalise this<br />
project. My studies, which prepared my scientific and<br />
professional background, lasted five years. I’ve been<br />
planning to show the first exhibition in April <strong>2021</strong> but<br />
considering the rapidly changing pandemic, it might be<br />
impossible.<br />
In how many countries are you planning on showing it?<br />
In ten. It might turn out that I will have more opportunities,<br />
I have some new propositions, but it all depends on the<br />
external factors.<br />
So, it is also symbolic – ten places, ten serial killers 1 , ten<br />
crime scenes, one common theme: the upbringing and<br />
childhood. How is the violence born?<br />
I focused on the cruellest crimes that I’ve analysed, which<br />
resulted in ten symbolic scenes. There are people who<br />
torture new-borns, in most cases the babies do not<br />
1 Richard Kuklinski, Charles Manson, Alieen Wuornos, Ted Bundy,<br />
John Wayne Gacy, Richard Speck, Dennis Rader, Andrei Chikatilo,<br />
Edmund Kemper, Jurgen Bartsch.