Spell with Scissors

The installation consists of hanging scissors collected from friends, bought in antique stores or 'inherited' from my family and found in household junk. The scissors refer to the "lost" element of the sculpture entitled The Witch by Teresa Feodorowna Ries. The title Witch (1895) was shown during the toilet before the Witches' Sabbath. The hand with scissors, which she used to cutting the claws on her feet, was knocked off or chopped off the marble figure in unexplained circumstances. A ready-made object both evokes the missing element of the sculpture by multiplying it, and refers to the objects used in witchcraft.

Its form refers to the method of divination using the sieve and scissors, used in ancient Greece, medieval and modern Europe to find answers to questions. Scissors react to a person approaching them.

Exhibitions:

Un Paradiso Amaro / Bitter Paradise,
Exhibit Studio, Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna, 2021, curator: Valerie Habsburg

Witches, Orientalisim and Unconscioussness in Viennese Modernism,
Austrian Culture Forum in Warsaw, 2021 curator: Anamarija Battista