Spells (single—channel video, 2012) Apotropaic and protective rituals are deeply rooted in folk culture. Videoperformance Spells moves them to a modern context, directing attention to the problems emerging in the virtual space. Alternative reality becomes a source of harmful behaviours that harm the recipient in a direct way, objectifying it. The interaction between two figures makes an abstract real; a gesture of a mature woman protects the younger, the words scar over the body, they also purify, and the imaginal, magical sphere, magic, finds its causative form.
Ewa Dyszlewicz (b. 1987 in Warsaw) — a Polish visual artist. She studied Photography at the University of Arts in Poznań, Faculty of Multimedia Communications (BA, 2012) and sonce 2010 has been studying at Institute of Creative Photography, Silesian University in Opava.
She had several group exhibitions, among others, Nieoczywiste, Galeria Aula, Poznań (2012); Ja, Ty, My (Galeria FF, Łódź, 2012; Dum umeni, Opava, 2012), Festiwal Nowej Sztuki „Labirynt’’, Słubice, 2011. Since 2012, she has been publishing in Zwykłe Życie magazine.
She cooperates with several non—governmental institutions, such as: The Bęc Zmiana New Culture Foundation and Centrum Architekury.
