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
      • drawings
      • text
    • A pine with six hands
    • I would rather not talk about this at church
    • Eighteen Christmas trees
    • Red-faced monkey
    • Strong sisters told the brothers
    • Well written act
    • Fifth Column
    • Legal Order
    • Group practices
      • Strajk Kobiet Wrocław
      • Collective Manifa Toruńska
      • #2613 (bez tytułu)
      • #2615 (bez tytułu)
      • Toruńskie Dziewuchy
      • Strajk Kobiet Kłodzko
      • Strajk Kobiet Zgorzelec
    • 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
      • SCUM/observation exercises
      • Andy Warhol – a self-portrait
      • SCUM/tools
      • Valerie
    • Unsorted
    • Freedom and Equal Opportunity (…)
    • She-wolf
    • Gays and artists create ODP
    • Rosa Winkel
    • A Journey
    • Playing with Myself with a Piece of Art
    • Bitches. Self-portrait with a lover
    • Blue blood. On TV I’m always a queen.
    • Other works
      • 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
    • Solo shows
      • Neetlebrides
      • Maids are sitting in a circle, Hawk was hanged
      • The star is burning over Betlehem
      • The long march through the institutions
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Herb of Grace 2019

installation (black dibond, flowerbed, Ruta graveolens L.)

The installation combines two magical contexts: energetic radiation of shapes and natural medicine, which is part of the old Polish rite, and It’s the result of the need to create positive narratives related to abortion.

The central element of the installation is the tenfold reduction of the Polish chakra – the Pyramid in Rapa, built in 1811 near the border with Russia (Kaliningrad Oblast), by the family of German von Farenheid barons. The pyramidal form of the tomb was supposed to promote the mummification of the body, and its positive radiation was strengthened by the inclination of the walls at an angle of 51 ° 52 ‘, as in the case of Egyptian pyramids. The mysterious power attributed to the pyramids, i.e. regenerating, preservative, corrosion prevention, libido enhancement, etc., remains unproven, in the sphere of pseudoscience.

Ruta graveolens used very often in traditional Slavic rites, was one of the symbols of the transition from the state of maiden to a wife. In central-European cultural region it was also believed that it has the power to drive away evil and turn away spells. According to the old-fashioned custom, maids made Ruta wedding wreaths (the emblem of virginity), as well as bracelets protecting from charms. More power was attributed to the home grown plants than to those harvested wild. Ruta also has a wide range of healing and contraceptive applications, but in large amounts it is poisonous. In the context of femininity, the fact that the decoction of the herb-of-grace was used as a natural abortifacient is important.

This plant is therefore a complete metaphor of femininity: from virginity through fertility to the right to choose and decide on your own body and offspring.

exhibition view, Long march through institutions, CoCA Kronika, Bytom, phot. Marcin Wysock
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exhibition view, Long march through institutions, CoCA Kronika, Bytom, phot. Marcin Wysock

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