'(Self)SoothingProject. No. 01' by Malgorzata Dawidek

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By Signature Art Prize 2019/20
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Dimensions (HxWxD):

61 × 40.5 × 0.1 cm

Materials:

Digital Printing

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Photography

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2019
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This work is currently shortlisted for the Signature Art Prize 2019/20. If you wish to purchase this piece it will be available after the 13th February 2020. About the artist: Malgorzata Dawidek is a visual artist, writer and art historian (PhD). Currently she is conducting a PhD practice-led research at the Slade School of Fine Art / UCL in London. Her artistic and academic interests cover the visual arts, literature and certain medical matters. Her practice is focused on the conflict between the condition of the human body, and discursive language. It addresses aspects of corporeality as a continuous narration, a text ‘in process’ – in relation to concept of identity, Self and Others - which she describes as bodygraphy. In her research, she analyses issues related to the physical and mental crises, the body vulnerability and limits, as well as to awareness, borders and possibilities of language in expressing them. In her art she combines a wide range of media encompassing photographs, performance, video, and written drawings. She also researches visual literature and is the author i.a.: ‘A History of Visual Text. Poland, post-1967’ (2012) awarded for the best PhD dissertation in Poland in 2010. Also, she has been awarded the Pollock-Krasner Foundation (2004-2005), and British Federation of Women Graduates (2017-2018) grants. About the work: This image is driven by an intense personal desire to connect inexpressible corporeal states with the artistic and social aspects. It is part of the SelfSoothing series, which contains visual representations of physical and emotional crises with special attention to self-soothing, self-caring and self-curing, which are relevant stages of dealing with a chronic diseases and depression in domestic conditions. In the photographs people with rare diseases or the artist present gestures and positions which help them to get better while in crisis, or reconstruct behaviours of others to test someone else’s methods of coping in analogical situations. On the other hand the photographs reveal enormous power of imagination allowing the body to use part of architecture or every day objects as a support while in crisis, making the body an integral element of domestic landscapes, but also placing it in a wide tradition of representations of the human body in Ancient and Medieval art. The ambition of this photography project is to make an original contribution to medicine, and to the wide social debate on loneliness, isolation, exclusion, pain, and difficulties in everyday life with invisible illnesses.

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