In Process

The starting point for my action was a place after the 19th-century chapel, located in the park of the Palace in Morawa. The chapel no longer exists, but its architectural details can be found in the park surrounding the palace, and the portal elements have been "integrated" into the outbuilding at the nearby hippodrome. The chapel building survived the war. It was gradually stolen and dismantled only during the communist period. There are also various speculations connected with the chapel, e.g. that in the basement of the chapel still hidden works of art looted from Polish museums during World War II.

This only abandoned and neglected place, near the Palace restored to its former glory by the daughters of its pre-war German owners, provoked me to a series of "gardening and performance" activities. They ended with an action during which, in the costume of "Priestess-Witch", I placed stones with the words in Polish WIESZ / NIE / WIERZ (know / don't / believe) on the foundations of the former chapel. The stones can be moved freely therefore changing the meaning of a sentence. The video documents the process of symbolic revitalization of the place and tells the story of the chapel.

site-specific installation

Special thanks to Mr. Czesław Michałowski and his company for engraving the letters in stone.

performance - video stills

The Chapel - video stills and presentation in the Morawa Palace