MAŁGORZATA MARKIEWICZ „Malignancies”

Weekend with artist 19, 20, 21.01.

exhibition 19.01. – 10.02.

I encourage everyone to bring your past and destroy it in the gallery, to create the symbolic Malignancy and to leave it with the others. I encourage to write down all these things, which no-one knows except you – the most horrible mysteries, moments, in which you felt humiliation, fear, which do not let you function normally, and later cutting them, destroying, and to free yourself from them.
Every day, before falling asleep, forgive yourself all the mistakes that you made, this is how the Christian evening conscience examination functions.
Text: Małgorzata Markiewicz

Malignancies
created beyond the body
shapes, objects of clothes, not worn anymore,
that are symbolic portrayal of ourselves,
but they are not integral, they have been pushed beyond us.
The symbolic way of parting with the past
exists only HERE and Now
let not the future be a fodder for our lives,
living in future, we do not really exist, we do not live.
We do not exist in the present,
life goes by on recollecting what already was
and on preparing for what will be.
Meanwhile, we miss the most important - Eternity


Bodies/portraits/malignancies, outside us, arose through the process of pushing beyond the body what left inside and could endanger. I mean stress, still living with what was in the past or planning what is going to be, shortly, a lack of contact with present moment.

Old clothes are a covering the past and cluttering up mind and body, it is a symbolic skin which is filled with shredded fragments of the past, those fragments - notepads, notes on sheets, papers gathered throughout a long time. This way the settlement of accounts with ourselves was also destroyed, noted on sheets beneath a character of all those things, which account for my burden. Events from the past, which are pushed aside, deposit in the mind, what follows also in body, potentially creating a place for developing of a foreign body, untamed – malignancy. In between the shredded into stripes pieces of paper, there are also handouts of hypermarkets, journals, women’s magazines, basically trash given to us for consumption, which involuntarily come into our hands and which we later read and look through under the illusion. That this way we can learn more about the present, about the world, about life.

The exhibition arose as a result of the need to look at life through the prism of words:

ALL, WHAT IS, IS NOW.
ALL, WHAT LIVES, LIVES NOW.
PRESENT TENSE IS THE ONLY EXISTING TENSE,
THE ONLY ETERNITY.


Perhaps the exhibition will become a reason to reflect on this subject.


Program Operacyjny: Promocja twórczości
Dofinansowano ze środków Ministra kultury i Dziedzictwa Narodowego
Realized with financial support of the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage