Przeciw(stawanie). Pękająca cisza ciałem is an exhibition that treats the body as a space where personal and political experiences intersect. Intimacy does not function here as a private sphere—stories about oneself always carry traces of external structures: violence, norms, exclusion, but also care, tenderness, and community.

 

The invited artists work with performance, installation, sound, and video. Their works are rooted in the materiality of the body and physical processes: breath, voice, sweat. Substances and materials such as mud, brick, skin, and fabric also appear, creating a sensory landscape of resistance. The works literally and metaphorically “breathe,” generating tension between fragility and agency.

The exhibition evokes images of ruins: traces of past communities, separating walls, scars from battles endured. These forms remain ambivalent—they are both a shelter and a sign of loss. A key theme of the project is community understood as practice: breathing together, reading, and listening to one another become gestures of resistance against isolation and silencing. Resistance is not always expressed through shouting—it sometimes comes as a whisper.

 

Artists: Magdalena Babicz, Magda Buczek, Dobrawa Borkała, Ewelina Węgiel

Curatorial Team: Malwina Bątruk, Agata Cieślak, Marta Romankiv, Adrianna Wiktoria Kowalik

Catalogue: Maria Pietras