Liliana Zeic (Piskorska)
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    • Benefits of BDSM for trauma survivors | Meristems
    • The red fog
    • Apples Grow on Oaks
    • Summer has completely come today
    • Gently running downwards
    • Zeic
    • Sourcebook | Książka źródeł
      • 2339 letters 8 574 pages
      • Cucumbers
      • Clamps
      • portrait of narcissa żmichowska
      • sketch for narcissa żmichowska
      • Wahlverwandtschaften #1
      • Sourcebook no 33
      • Useful knots
      • from the soil right here beneath this house
      • Wahlverwandtschaften #2
      • Wahlverwandtschaften #3
      • The Berry Maids #1
      • White lady
      • In each of these pairs, one would masculinise herself outwardly
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    • I would rather not talk about this at church
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    • Well written act
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    • Legal Order
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      • Strajk Kobiet Wrocław
      • Collective Manifa Toruńska
      • #2613 (bez tytułu)
      • #2615 (bez tytułu)
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    • I find this strange
    • Herb of Grace
    • You’re going to love the lavender menace
    • It’s barbaric, but hey, it’s home
    • Public displays of Affection
    • Annihilate by speaking
    • Stalin’s Revenge
    • About diseases of plants
    • The field I am buried in
    • Linguistic and gender asymmetry
    • Self-portrait with borrowed man
    • SCUM
      • Triad of Evil
      • SCUM/manifesto
      • SCUM/ in action 2016/1
      • SCUM/ journal
      • SCUM/preparations
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      • Andy Warhol – a self-portrait
      • SCUM/tools
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    • Playing with Myself with a Piece of Art
    • Bitches. Self-portrait with a lover
    • Blue blood. On TV I’m always a queen.
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      • All the beautiful girls and all the beautiful boys
      • Methods of camouflage in contemporary Poland
      • I Was Always with You
      • Breathing exercises
      • Eleven skinned spruces
      • roots
      • double self-portrait
      • Revolutions – videos for the theater play
      • Different types od closeness
      • Blackout
      • My favorite porn actors
      • Woman to be eaten
      • Self-portrait with escapelle
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      • Neetlebrides
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Bitches. Self-portrait with a lover

a sculptural installation
2013

body casts made of chalk and paper mass, animals furs and skin from:
nutria, fox, sheep, cow, deer, reindeer, chinchilla, rabbit, mink, wild boar

This installation is a self-portrait with the artist’s female lover. Thus, it can be read as a story about symbiosis, womanhood and animalistic desire. It may be seen as trying to expunge the word “animalistic” of its negative connotations.
The title alone is an attempt to subversively overtake and reuse the symbolic that comes with the word “bitch”.

The installation is made out of animal fur, which the artist gathered from her acquaintances. Using the furs in an artistic installation did not cause the death of any of those animals – the artist gathered old, unused and unneeded furs. Animal fur and skin are not neutral. They still evoke connotations with exclusiveness and the fashion industry. On the other hand, using them causes unease due to the obvious association with death, although as a final product the fur is cleansed from the elements that remind us that somebody had to give their life for it to be created (such as claws, ears, eyes).

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