Za’opatrzenie / Provision
2023
Installation, actionism
The word "zaopatrzenie" can be roughly translated from Polish as "supply", but "opatrzenie" means patching, cleansing it of something, filling it, performing a sacrament over a dying person.
After being created, the sculptures were returned to the places they came from: a forest by the Vistula, the Vistula itself and a young grove in Podlasie. This gesture is both material and symbolic. The Giants embody people and memory whose connection to the land has been severed or erased. By returning these figures to the soil, the project turns toward a return to the landscape that shaped them. The materials (old bedsheets, pillowcases, duvets) evoke intimacy, the body and sleep, but also the threshold between memory / forgetting. Fallen branches collected from the Vistula and from the Polish-Belarusian border form a fragile skeleton, carrying the trace of the landscape. Plaster binds these elements together, only for the sculpture to slowly fall apart again over time.
This cycle of decay is not destruction but transformation. The sculptures, once monumental and still, become porous, fall back into the ground and take root to grow differently.
After being created, the sculptures were returned to the places they came from: a forest by the Vistula, the Vistula itself and a young grove in Podlasie. This gesture is both material and symbolic. The Giants embody people and memory whose connection to the land has been severed or erased. By returning these figures to the soil, the project turns toward a return to the landscape that shaped them. The materials (old bedsheets, pillowcases, duvets) evoke intimacy, the body and sleep, but also the threshold between memory / forgetting. Fallen branches collected from the Vistula and from the Polish-Belarusian border form a fragile skeleton, carrying the trace of the landscape. Plaster binds these elements together, only for the sculpture to slowly fall apart again over time.
This cycle of decay is not destruction but transformation. The sculptures, once monumental and still, become porous, fall back into the ground and take root to grow differently.
