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Monika Wachowicz
Studio Ciała i Emocji |
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Performance installation: Monika Wachowicz and Jarosław Fret
Concept: Jarosław Fret and Monika Wachowicz
Stage movement, costume designer and performer: Monika Wachowicz
Written by: Monika Wachowicz and Jarosław Fret
Featuring the exceptional artistry of:
Jakub Korpoluk on Japanese kotsuzumi drum
Jan Skopowski, cello arrangement of Messiaen’s ‘Quartet for the End of Time‘
Technology and video editing: Jarosław Siejkowski
Running time: 49 minutes
Première: 25 August 2023 at the 12th edition of the Hommage á Kieślowski Movie Festival in Sokołowsko.
Production: The Grotowski Institute and Monika Wachowicz Body and Emotions Studio
I am
I breathe
I look
I feel
I touch
I speak
S E V E N
I am a fibrous plant
Pendulum above my head and within me
Deep as a seed in the ground
I count a rosary down my spine
I spin myself from past and future, maybe someone else's....
But I will not die from the prick of the spindle
S E V E N
Not yet today
Not yet
I dress femininity in leather
I dress leather in femininity
From the torn fabrics of the past
I unfold the matrix
S E V E N
I unfold the heart
I embrace all the tears of the world
I set the sacred tablecloth
I stretch the bow
I hunt the moth with infinite wings
I do not cry out for help for I have become light
S E V E N
I tap
I spit
I drip
I swish
I swim
I drown
S E V E N
First
Second
Third
One more
Five
Six Unfinished, Infinite (how to count it). Count it
S E V E N
I am a fibrous plant
I remember
I am a memory
I sink my feet into the earth
I gush
Whiteness pours over me
S E V E N
Krzysztof Kieślowski has permeated my life since the moment I realised I wanted to do art. His films have influenced me with a particular kind of looking, listening, existing somewhere in the world in between, suspended where words end their journey and images and emotions last.
The direct inspiration for the S E V E N project is a short documentary film by K. Kieślowski from 1978. ‘Seven Women of Different Ages’, as well as the unique one-page typescript of the idea for the film ‘Stairs’, still preserved in the director's archive, dating from 1970, in which the basic idea for this future documentary masterpiece can be found.
“For a long time xxxxxxxxxxxx I have been looking for a way to make a film about the inevitability of time passing. Problems and things grow old, views and fashions pass - I found it difficult to find an abstract or symbolic solution to this problem in a documentary film. Scripted attempts failed miserably, all mental puzzles ended up illustrating the thesis. In this subject - to be alive - you have to find the drama. xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx. The passing of time for a person. The most beautiful xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx thing would be xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx to film someone - probably a woman - for several decades [...]”:
Document link: ‘Seven Women of Different Ages’ by K. Kieślowski.
S E V E N represents a complete stage brought to an end, unto itself. Its completion is followed by a new stage, which is a consequence of the previous one. I wonder about my place among the seven generations of women (as long as Life still and invariably comes through an unbroken chain of birth from the female body). Am I a single body, or do I carry within me past and future generations that remember each other, meet each other, see each other in my body?
In Egyptian, ‘seven’ (sfḫ) is related to ‘to forgive - to forget’.
I shudder when I try to understand it . . .
Monika Wachowicz
Background photos: © Kazimierz Ździebło
