Archive 2022 KubaParis

Memory Substance Juicing Barbie DNA with Ancestral Purification in Accelerating Decelerating Macabre

Gynoid 2 -(Self Portrait), 2022, tailored PVC print, fimo clay, 185 x 30 x 20 cm
Gynoid 2 -(Self Portrait), 2022, tailored PVC print, fimo clay, 185 x 30 x 20 cm
Installation view 2
Installation view 2
Frogo Knitix 1-2-3, 2022, Digital print on a carpet, 60 x 80 x 2 cm
Frogo Knitix 1-2-3, 2022, Digital print on a carpet, 60 x 80 x 2 cm
This Is Cosmic, 2017, 12 min, HD video, stereo sound, glazed ceramic, silver duct tape, mp4 player, headphones, 33 Ø cm
This Is Cosmic, 2017, 12 min, HD video, stereo sound, glazed ceramic, silver duct tape, mp4 player, headphones, 33 Ø cm
Ceps, No Nipples, 2017, 40 min, HD video, stereo sound, 10’screen, aluminium cast, 60 x 22 x 10 cm
Ceps, No Nipples, 2017, 40 min, HD video, stereo sound, 10’screen, aluminium cast, 60 x 22 x 10 cm
Thank you artist ancestors for accepting me to your community, 2022, red clay collected from: Radoszyce (PL), Sippo (FI), Chiusure (IT), mp4 players, USB hub, plexiglass, 80 x 66 x 44 cm, The installation includes: 2 s out of 6000 clips, 2022, SD video, colour, stereo, 30 min Zofia Krawiec in Bodyssey, 2022, SD video, colour, stereo, 10 min Susan Wenger’s Shrine, 2018, SD video, colour, stereo, 7 min BOdyssey Launch, 2022, SD video, colour, stereo, 6 min Women’s march, 2016 SD video, colour, stereo, 8 min
Thank you artist ancestors for accepting me to your community, 2022, red clay collected from: Radoszyce (PL), Sippo (FI), Chiusure (IT), mp4 players, USB hub, plexiglass, 80 x 66 x 44 cm, The installation includes: 2 s out of 6000 clips, 2022, SD video, colour, stereo, 30 min Zofia Krawiec in Bodyssey, 2022, SD video, colour, stereo, 10 min Susan Wenger’s Shrine, 2018, SD video, colour, stereo, 7 min BOdyssey Launch, 2022, SD video, colour, stereo, 6 min Women’s march, 2016 SD video, colour, stereo, 8 min
Thank you artist ancestors for accepting me to your community, detail 1
Thank you artist ancestors for accepting me to your community, detail 1
Thank you artist ancestors for accepting me to your community, detail 2
Thank you artist ancestors for accepting me to your community, detail 2
Installation view 3
Installation view 3
BOdyssey Interlude, 2022, HD video, stereo, sound, 36 min, 32” screen, glazed ceramics, headphones, silver duct tape, 60 x 40 x 75 cm
BOdyssey Interlude, 2022, HD video, stereo, sound, 36 min, 32” screen, glazed ceramics, headphones, silver duct tape, 60 x 40 x 75 cm
Suits, 2018, tailored prints on fabrics, plexiglass, metal bolts, tape, 49  x 61 x 2 cm
Suits, 2018, tailored prints on fabrics, plexiglass, metal bolts, tape, 49 x 61 x 2 cm
Gynoid 1, 2022, PVC, automotive paint, bronze, leather, sandstone, VideoGirl Barbie dolls,  175 x 30 x 20 cm
Gynoid 1, 2022, PVC, automotive paint, bronze, leather, sandstone, VideoGirl Barbie dolls, 175 x 30 x 20 cm
Gauntlet 2, 2021, bronze, leather,  19 x 10 x 0,5 cm
Gauntlet 2, 2021, bronze, leather, 19 x 10 x 0,5 cm
Gauntlet 1, 2021, bronze, leather, VideoGirl Barbie doll, 36 x 11 x 0,5 cm
Gauntlet 1, 2021, bronze, leather, VideoGirl Barbie doll, 36 x 11 x 0,5 cm
Pauldron, 2021, bronze, leather, 35 x 48 x 0,5 cm
Pauldron, 2021, bronze, leather, 35 x 48 x 0,5 cm
Techno-messianistic-shroom 1, 2021, glazed ceramic, aluminium film can, screws, 26 Ø cm
Techno-messianistic-shroom 1, 2021, glazed ceramic, aluminium film can, screws, 26 Ø cm
Bodyssey Craft, 2022, glazed ceramic, pearls, cinnamon sticks, faux fur fabric, 45 x 40 x 27 cm
Bodyssey Craft, 2022, glazed ceramic, pearls, cinnamon sticks, faux fur fabric, 45 x 40 x 27 cm
Devil’s Tree Frog -Frogo, 2021, bronze, 22 x 6 x 6 cm
Devil’s Tree Frog -Frogo, 2021, bronze, 22 x 6 x 6 cm
Installation view 5
Installation view 5

Location

Hippolyte Studio, Helsinki, Finland

Date

30.03 –28.04.2022

Photography

Laura Mainiemi, Milla Talassalo

Subheadline

Memory Substance Juicing Barbie DNA with Ancestral Purification in Accelerating Decelerating Macabre. Solo show by Monika Czyżyk at Hippolyte Studio, Helsinki.

Text

Someone proposed the timeline–to meet in the past–’86 and then in the future. Don’t remember the exact coordinates. Perception was shifting, changing, stretching, no longer able to communicate. We were still talking. Using gestures as language. Rhythmic movements of wizards producing magic and soup, in the vastness of the shared energy. All the images from witches to churches, coders, queens, mothers, cast bronze appendages, screens, tablets, phones, photo frames, clay structures, and superheroines like Xena were passing by, juicing Barbie DNA with ancestral purification in accelerating decelerating macabre. Music was repeatedly saying: respect. This time the orgasmic sensations in a shared peeing ceremony were very intense. On her phone she had an app installed with white noise. Vagina was sending signals about what’s good and what’s bad through the active process of digging, firing, shaping feminist narratives. A soup out of videos, Barbies, mythologies, mushrooms, clay, leaves and words, and pour it all on the walls. The device at the centre of the exhibition is a “Video Girl” Barbie doll. It is a 2010 special edition Barbie with a video camera and playback unit embedded in its body; a device that allows for the expression of vulnerability, humour, playfulness, and transversality. Czyżyk has made an archive called Bodyssey, consisting of videos, sculptures, costumes, collected between 2016 -2022 / featuring artists, queer communities, from Poland, Finland, Ukraine, China, Malaysia, Nigeria and Iran. Contributors from around the world received their own “Video Girl” from the artist to film their unique viewpoints, stories, dances and personal perspectives of the times we are living in. Their videos have been transformed from narrative single channel film into one organic piece, BOdyssey archive (2016-2022)—a memory substance.

Monika Czyżyk