A Hiding / Weronika Fibich

 

A Hiding – community arts
Concept: Weronika Fibich; protagonists: relatives of Mrs. Waala Malinowska

Each and every place – if you draw it or build a spatial model of it – is a specific net of threads, a structure of messages generated on different levels. Each and every place reflects the spatial expression of time.
This time I am trying to explore the limit of memory by discovering the story of Mrs. Waala Malinowska, once the oldest resident of Stolec village. I never talked to her. I recreate shreds of her story from the recordings made by someone else, looking for tangents and uniqueness, for processes of memorizing and forgetting. I explore three heterogeneous layers of memories: of her great-grandchildren (Julia and Patryk), of her grandchildren (Weronika, Marta, Adrian), and of her sons (Mirek, Andrzej, Zbigniew). Together with them, we are building a hideout for a character still existing on the border, between the Here and There, between the experienced and the remembered. Leaving my own images / signs in the public space to be read by others, we do not actually tell our stories, but we let the threads we grasp to develop.

Weronika Fibich

photo documentation available: here