KATARZYNA KOZYRA – In art dreams come true

Katarzyna Kozyra came to the attention of the international art world with the video of her intrusion into an all-male bathhouse, earning her honorable mention at the Venice Biennale in 1999. From 2003 to 2008 she has been wororking on In Arts Dreams Come True, a project consisting of a series of performances, quasi-theatrical productions, audience-engaging happenings, and films. In creating the individual works, Kozyra has acted as director, chief performer, and as “raw material” in the hands of two master guides who assist her in assuming various roles. Gloria Viagra, the Berlin-based drag queen whom the artist sees as a model of “true femininity,” and the voice coach Grzegorz Pitułej, known as Maestro, introduce Kozyra into worlds saturated with artificiality, convention and posing. These features are central to each of Kozyra’s artistic embodiments, which include an opera Diva, a drag queen, a cheerleader, Olympia from Offenbach’s opera, Snow White, and many others.

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