NOwhere
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Kamila Czosnyk, intermedia artist and performer, is the sixth artist to present her work at the Rotating Gallery. Her performance titled NOwhere is a multi-threaded narrative based on a classic, conceptual performance structure. Despite the linearity of her action, the artist activates a rhizomatic structure, weaving and entwining, entangling and enmeshing. She leads us along a road to nowhere—a road with no possibility to escape, with no exit. She layers question upon question, leaving them unanswered. In trying to emerge from the darkness, we find ourselves stepping back into the shadows.
- Performance, 26 October (Saturday), 8PM
- Event cancelled due to illness of the artist
"There are no words in my head I could use, no words I could utter. I cannot find a thought with which I could possibly justify the evil we have experienced and the evil we are doing. As a person, as a human being, I cannot do a thing. There is no artistic activity that could possibly express the despair that I feel. And yet, I don’t want to remain passive in the face of the atrocities that one human being perpetrates against another human being. Banality of evil is a concept we’ve been striving to comprehend and describe from the day we began to think. Alas, we cannot oppose it, nor can we prevent it. My work portrays the state of resignation and the level of complexity in which we find ourselves. It is a path of the blind—a road to nowhere," says Czosnyk.
Each performance is something unique and definitive. On one hand, the artist draws upon Lévinas and his ideas about encountering the Other; on the other, she references Derrida’s concept of shibboleths, which challenge absolute truths that could decide and sever. By obscuring her own path, Czosnyk compels us to seek answers within ourselves, rather than in her actions.
Kamila Czosnyk—born in 1988, an intermedia artist working at the intersection of performance art, video art, and artistic installations. She is empathetic as an artist. She has carried out her artistic activities in cooperation with the Labirynt Gallery, Biała Gallery, MOCAK, Cultural Centre in Lublin, BWA Awangarda in Wrocław, Asia and Pacific Museum. Ministry of Culture and National Heritage scholarship holder. Her works have been presented at many events, including: NO Budget Show, International Festival of Ephemeral Art, 22nd International Theatre Confrontations Festival, Survival of Art in Wrocław, Videonews, Performance Platform Lublin, Kiyv Art Week. The core of her work is the observation of external elements—events, people, and stories—and filtering them through a subjective lens. In her works, she conveys observations about the world around her and about human existence.
The year 2024 marks POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews’ 10th anniversary. To celebrate this occasion, we want to make the voices of Jewish artists heard by creating a rotating, lively, polyphonic space in the last gallery of the Core Exhibition—a space for Jewish artists to express themselves.
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Co-financed by the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage – project: "Rotating Gallery as part of POLIN Museum’s 10th birthday celebration (developing a network of Jewish artists)."
