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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.

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