Liliana Zeic (Piskorska)
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    • Intarsia | 2024
    • PEARLGEM
    • Portrait of Natalia Bobrowna in her studio”
    • Afternoon cup of tea
    • Intarsia works | 2023
      • Little sun
      • When our mensies synch up there will be a sea of blood
      • Girls
    • The One Who Looks at the Sky
    • Let’s Slip a Moist Flax Seed into a Soil
      • Looking at the sun through St. John’s wort leaves
      • Sleepyheads
      • Neetlebrides
      • Brush-maker woman 1
      • Plants
      • Berry foraging
      • Dancing magnolia fruits
      • Let’s Slip a Moist Flax Seed into a Soil 1-4
      • Strayberries 1
    • Dear Madam
    • Smudge bundles for the institutions that broke my heart
    • Benefits of BDSM for trauma survivors | Meristems
    • Apples Grow on Oaks
    • Summer has completely come today
    • Gently running downwards
    • Zeic
    • Sourcebook | Książka źródeł
      • Eyes
      • 2339 letters 8 574 pages
      • Cucumbers
      • 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
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      • 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
    • About diseases of plants
    • The field I am buried in
    • Self-portrait with borrowed man
    • Freedom and Equal Opportunity (…)
    • Gays and artists create ODP
    • A Journey
    • Bitches. Self-portrait with a lover
    • Other works
      • She-wolf
      • Rosa Winkel
      • Stalin’s Revenge
      • Playing with Myself with a Piece of Art
      • Blue blood. On TV I’m always a queen.
      • Unsorted
      • Linguistic and gender asymmetry
      • Methods of camouflage in contemporary Poland
      • SCUM
      • Breathing exercises
      • Eleven skinned spruces
      • double self-portrait
    • Solo shows
      • My hands are full
      • Let’s Slip a Moist Flax Seed into a Soil
      • 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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Public displays of Affection installation 2017

video, loop, 06’40’’
photography series, photography print, edition lightbox 110x160x10 cm, 4 parts
text/drawings (8 parts), dimensions variable

The concept of the project is deeply connected with the concept of public space and its physical and symbolic demarcation lines. It questions the shifting forms of group and individual communication happening within it. One of these forms is a public assembly – group performativity constantly recreated in new ways and internalized by many as a possible (only) medium of speaking up: communication which is directed upwards, space retaken as a space of community. Space of helplessness and anger that, mixed together, gently transform an individual identity into a group identity. (Did you know that ‘public displays of affection’ are acts of physical intimacy in the view of others?)

This visual manifest is a synchronized spectacle focused on physical frames of temporary legality of assembly. And those frames are formed from living and breathing material: riot-control police squads as well as private (often unofficial) security of demonstration. Synchronized police formations are constantly in intimate contact with each other, their integrity depends on every single person being connected to another, being in constant contact and moving, turning and acting together. However, this closeness it structured by the function of the police formation and the function predominates the body, the person, the individual.

A border shifts, created for just a second, quickly disappears just to be recreated in another context. The idea of both separation and contact is visualized through the same structure. Legal orders and laws seem to be just a passing phase, their lability is bared and it softly sings the melody of the forthcoming uproar.

video credits: camera: Damian Danilovic, color grading: Bartosz Pawlikowski, audio post-production: Paweł Rychert, direction, editing: Liliana Piskorska

produced with: Forecast Festival (mentor Bjorn Melhus),  Adam Mickiewicz Institute and Polish Institute in Berlin

video still, video 6'40'', loop
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