Liliana Zeic (Piskorska)
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  • Works
    • 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
      • Side effects
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Apples Grow on Oaks 2021

thermal transfer film on fabric, 330 x 140cm
object (meadow hay, nettle fibre rope, pins) 115x 61x4cm

An attempt at creating a visual symbol of the queer body processing trauma, a non-normative body that is subject to ongoing trauma. The keywords that surround the graphic element relate directly to the experience of working through trauma through non-normative sexual practices, or BDSM. The symbol created as a hybrid of meristems, i.e. plant-building tissues (which enable growth and division) and galls: plant tissues processed and controlled by non-plants. Galls are distinctive plant structures formed by certain herbivorous insects as their own microhabitats. These growths are called galls after the Latin galla (oak apple) or cecidia, from the Greek kikidion, meaning anything that gushes.

The title of the work derives from Jan Brzechwa’s poem for children “On the Isles of Bergamut” from 1945. In the 1950s, an anonymous censor described Brzechwa’s work as: “anthropomorphization, one of the worst kinds at that”. The reality presented in this poem can be considered a utopia. It is a metaphor, a state impossible to attain.

According to the principles governing therapy, trauma can only be worked through by people who are already safe. So what is there to do for those whom the world offers no foundation for safety?

exhibition view, COCA Kronika, phot. Julia Pałkowska
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exhibition view, COCA Kronika, phot. Julia Pałkowska

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