Working on THE B O R D E R took me to a totally new place, to which I invited Olena Matoshniuk, a painter, a woman who strongly supports Ukrainian female artists living in Poland. All of this was accomplished thanks to Jaroslaw Fret, who, having heard the story of Romanova, convinced me to bring her back, to make her present.
THE B O R D E R is about the creation of a new, intimate language of the [Not]Present, where the proverbial “barbed wire” disappears. When I write “barbed wire,” I want to evoke the image of a prisoner/prisoner’s dialogue with the outside world, or the refugees behind that wire.
There is a voice coming out all the time that talks about us wanting humanity, and not a barbed wire.
THE B O R D E R oscillates on the edge of performance with ritual and ceremony. In our eyes becomes the “rite of passage” that is, the moment of “receiving and bestowing” simultaneously. Creates a new field, where time is already just a “moving image of eternity”.
The project was born out of the need to give voice to those whose voices are silenced.
In the summer of 2024, together with Jarosław Fret, I started working on the final shape of THE B O R D E R.
Monika Wachowicz
To come to taste everything, you can’t be willing to taste something in nothing.
To come to have everything, you can’t be willing to have something in nothing.
To come to be everything, you can’t be willing to be something in nothing.
To come to know everything, you can’t be willing to know something in nothing.
To come to what you don’t like, you must go through what you don’t like.
To come to what you don’t recognize, you must go through what you don’t recognize.
To get to what you don’t have, you must go through what you don’t have.
To come to what you are not, you must go through what you are not.
When you focus on something, you stop pursuing everything.
For in order to completely come to everything, you must completely deny yourself in everything.
And when you come to possess everything, you must possess it without desiring anything.
The path of perfection to Mount Carmel. The Way of St. John of the Cross.
AWARDS:
The Scotsman FRINGE FIRST 2024 and nomination for The Brighton Fringe Excellence Award at Edinburgh Fringe Festival
