Boszki
2023
site specific installation
video, cotton, embroidery, hay, wood
sound composition Agatha Lewandowski
performance Kata Kwiatkowska
curated by Zeren Oruc
Boszki: On passages, feasts, and ancestral connections is a project inspired by the edges of material and spiritual worlds in Slavic mythology. Boszki (read: boshky) is an interdisciplinary art exhibition, performance and experience that is honouring the tradition of Dziady, a celebration that according to ancient Slavic cultures allowed living beings to reconnect with the wandering souls and spirits.
Looking into the Dziady, an important cultural celebration in Eastern European folk traditions, as a way to understand today’s communities. The idea for the exhibition and performance comes from the need for the exploration of the ritual and its role in the forming of tradition. The concept is based on the togetherness that is often used in folk tradition as a medium for communicating with spirits. Dziady is a starting point to speak about togetherness, community, femininity & oppression, folk traditions and their relevance today, intergenerational bonds, and our relationship to death and grief.
Fragment of the exhibition text written by Zeren Oruc