Amputation

The object Amputation ("Odcięcie") was part of a curatorial project for an exhibition "Cheers to the morning loops" ("Czoła porannym pętlom"), which concept assumed the study of morning or recurring thoughts of artists, in one way or another related to the context of their lives, as well as understanding memory through the image of a loop, which through repetition allows us to understand the world, but can also suffocate us with difficult memories or save us in a critical situation.

Memory depends on repeated stimuli. To forget something means to stop encountering it even in yourself. In non-democratic societies, memory and forgetting become weapons against the unwanted.

To cut a person off from society, you have to do everything to make them forget about them. They isolate, repress, limit their manifestations, and minimize contact with the outside world.

In such societies, prison for many people, especially political prisoners, turns into a kind of stone coffin, in which they hide them from other people, justice, and the chance to return to normal life someday. They cut the dissident off from the body of society and try to forget.

A dream is often repeated among forced emigrants in a new place, that without their desire they have returned to a place where they were threatened with death. When they wake up, they do not immediately realize that they are relatively safe. This is repeated morning after morning, until new impressions create new memory loops.

The exhibition with the participation of 9 students of the Academy of Art in Szczecin was also the inauguration of a new space called “Rampa” in the building of the Palace of the Pomeranian Landowners in Szczecin.