The installation has been created over the years, undergoing many transformations. I made a series of casts taken from a woman's body in 2001 at the Center of Polish Sculpture in Orońsko. The works were part of my artistic diploma project "Metamorphosis of a woman - female metamorphoses" in the Intermedia studio at the Faculty of Visual Arts, Academy of Fine Arts in Łódź (Poland).
The objects were born in the beautiful scenery of the Orońsko area. The local red earth has become an indispensable material, a matter playing a key role in the ongoing transformation process.
While experimenting with matter, I have developed an original, precise technique of gradually "peeling off the skin" to reveal what is invisible, hidden and inaccessible. What was important to me was the veristic nature of the casting, materials related to nature and various types of resins. Photographs (which are also a light imprint of reality) depicting bodily organs and hair - human and non-human, female and male - were embedded in transparent resins with colors corresponding to the interior of the body hidden under the skin. Through the use of transparent light-sensitive materials, the photographs gained a realistic, three-dimensional effect.
The work includes: deconstruction of the patriarchal binary order, of anthropocentrism and of myths related to the figure of Woman.
In 2015, I started growing moss on some of the casts. In 2016, moss-covered objects took part in my individual exhibition "Emily Dickinson's Room" at Galeria Bałucka, the Municipal Art Gallery in Łódź, as an illustration of one of the poems of this poet deeply connected with nature.
They also became part of the Sister Earth / Lover Earth project in 2022.
