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When they drank it all, their hair became grass, their fingers became ripples, their eyes became mirrors of the sun and their sweat became the saliva of the river.

31.03.2023 – 21.05.2023

1. exhibition view, „When they drank it all, their hair became grass, their fingers became waves, their eyes became mirrors of the sun, and their sweat became the saliva of the river”
Arsenal Gallery in Bialystok; fot.Tytus Szabelski-Różniak

2. exhibition view, „When they drank it all, their hair became grass, their fingers became waves, their eyes became mirrors of the sun, and their sweat became the saliva of the river”
Arsenal Gallery in Bialystok; fot.Tytus Szabelski-Różniak

3. Iga Świeściak & Marie Tučková „The Polyphonic Womb”, 2022-23, exhibition „When they drank it all, their hair became grass, their fingers became waves, their eyes became mirrors of the sun, and their sweat became the saliva of the river”
Arsenal Gallery in Bialystok; fot.Tytus Szabelski-Różniak

5. Iga Świeściak & Marie Tučková „The Polyphonic Womb”, 2022-23, exhibition „When they drank it all, their hair became grass, their fingers became waves, their eyes became mirrors of the sun, and their sweat became the saliva of the river”
Arsenal Gallery in Bialystok; fot.Tytus Szabelski-Różniak

6. Iga Świeściak & Marie Tučková „The Polyphonic Womb”, 2022-23, exhibition „When they drank it all, their hair became grass, their fingers became waves, their eyes became mirrors of the sun, and their sweat became the saliva of the river”
Arsenal Gallery in Bialystok; fot.Tytus Szabelski-Różniak

7. Iga Świeściak & Marie Tučková „The Polyphonic Womb”, 2022-23, exhibition „When they drank it all, their hair became grass, their fingers became waves, their eyes became mirrors of the sun, and their sweat became the saliva of the river”
Arsenal Gallery in Bialystok; fot.Tytus Szabelski-Różniak

8. Iga Świeściak & Marie Tučková „The Polyphonic Womb”, 2022-23, exhibition „When they drank it all, their hair became grass, their fingers became waves, their eyes became mirrors of the sun, and their sweat became the saliva of the river”
Arsenal Gallery in Bialystok; fot.Tytus Szabelski-Różniak

9. Iga Świeściak & Marie Tučková „The Polyphonic Womb”, 2022-23, exhibition „When they drank it all, their hair became grass, their fingers became waves, their eyes became mirrors of the sun, and their sweat became the saliva of the river”
Arsenal Gallery in Bialystok; fot.Tytus Szabelski-Różniak

10. Iga Świeściak & Marie Tučková „The Polyphonic Womb”, 2022-23, exhibition „When they drank it all, their hair became grass, their fingers became waves, their eyes became mirrors of the sun, and their sweat became the saliva of the river”
Arsenal Gallery in Bialystok; fot.Tytus Szabelski-Różniak

11. exhibition view, „When they drank it all, their hair became grass, their fingers became waves, their eyes became mirrors of the sun, and their sweat became the saliva of the river”
Arsenal Gallery in Bialystok; fot.Tytus Szabelski-Różniak

12. exhibition view, „When they drank it all, their hair became grass, their fingers became waves, their eyes became mirrors of the sun, and their sweat became the saliva of the river”
Arsenal Gallery in Bialystok; fot.Tytus Szabelski-Różniak

13. exhibition view, „When they drank it all, their hair became grass, their fingers became waves, their eyes became mirrors of the sun, and their sweat became the saliva of the river”
Arsenal Gallery in Bialystok; fot.Tytus Szabelski-Różniak

14. exhibition view, „When they drank it all, their hair became grass, their fingers became waves, their eyes became mirrors of the sun, and their sweat became the saliva of the river”
Arsenal Gallery in Bialystok; fot.Tytus Szabelski-Różniak

15. exhibition view, „When they drank it all, their hair became grass, their fingers became waves, their eyes became mirrors of the sun, and their sweat became the saliva of the river”
Arsenal Gallery in Bialystok; fot.Tytus Szabelski-Różniak

16. Marie Tučková series „Leaking Sounds of the Angel’s Hole”, 2020, exhibition „When they drank it all, their hair became grass, their fingers became waves, their eyes became mirrors of the sun, and their sweat became the saliva of the river”
Arsenal Gallery in Bialystok; fot.Tytus Szabelski-Różniak

17. Marie Tučková series „Leaking Sounds of the Angel’s Hole”, 2020, exhibition „When they drank it all, their hair became grass, their fingers became waves, their eyes became mirrors of the sun, and their sweat became the saliva of the river”
Arsenal Gallery in Bialystok; fot.Tytus Szabelski-Różniak

18. Marie Tučková series „Leaking Sounds of the Angel’s Hole”, 2020, exhibition „When they drank it all, their hair became grass, their fingers became waves, their eyes became mirrors of the sun, and their sweat became the saliva of the river”
Arsenal Gallery in Bialystok; fot.Tytus Szabelski-Różniak

19. Marie Tučková „The Polyphonic Womb”, 2022, exhibition „When they drank it all, their hair became grass, their fingers became waves, their eyes became mirrors of the sun, and their sweat became the saliva of the river”
Arsenal Gallery in Bialystok; fot.Tytus Szabelski-Różniak

20. Marie Tučková „The Vagina Tree”, 2022, exhibition „When they drank it all, their hair became grass, their fingers became waves, their eyes became mirrors of the sun, and their sweat became the saliva of the river”
Arsenal Gallery in Bialystok; fot.Tytus Szabelski-Różniak

21. Marie Tučková „Cradle is the Reverberation of Silence”, 2022, exhibition „When they drank it all, their hair became grass, their fingers became waves, their eyes became mirrors of the sun, and their sweat became the saliva of the river”
Arsenal Gallery in Bialystok; fot.Tytus Szabelski-Różniak

When they drank it all, their hair became grass, their fingers became waves, their eyes became mirrors of the sun, and their sweat became the saliva of the river
Marie Tučková with Iga Świeściak

curator: Tomek Pavlovsky-Yarmolayev

31.03-21.05.2023
Arsenal Gallery Bialystok, A.Mickiewicza Street 2, Bialystok

31.03.2023 at 6.00 pm – exhibition opening, admission free
1.04.2023 at 12:00 – a guided tour by the author and curator, admission included in the ticket price

When they drank it all, their hair became grass, their fingers became waves, their eyes became mirrors of the sun, and their sweat became the saliva of the river – is the first presentation in Poland of works by Czech artist Marie Tučková. The exhibition’s title comes from the script for the video The Polyphonic Womb, in which the artist combines polyphonic songs with poetry and performance. In this work, Tučková perceives the womb as a space of polyphony and constant sonic resonance. She interweaves stories of fluid human and more than human bodies, placing the dead river at the heart of the non-linear narrative as a metaphor for ecosystem degradation. The video was co-created by Mariana Hradilková, Raffia Li, Rebeka Maxová, Dorota Tučková and Iga Swieściak. On the occasion of the exhibition at the Arsenal, Tučková and Swieściak are revising their collaborative process through an updated video edit and a series of drawings, notes and mind maps that make up the site-specific installation displayed in the central hall.

In addition, the exhibition’s peculiar landscape will be built up by Tučková’s textiles and sound installation referring to listening to the polyphony chorus, feeling and nurturing relationships with nature. Crochets from the Leaking Sounds of the Angel’s Hole series resemble trees-vaginas in form. Inspired by the trilogy Xenogenesis written by Octavia E. Butler, the works combine the visual anthropomorphism of the fabrics with embroidered texts telling the story of the interconnectedness of species and the flow of energy in the universe. On the other hand, the sound installation consists of field recordings, songs and short musical compositions by the artist. The particular elements are the result of experimental listening sessions, vocal exercises, field recordings and improvised compositions inspired by visits to the Rokitka and Vltava rivers.

Marie Tučková, born in 1994 in Prague, uses text, performance, sound, video, drawing and installation as her artistic media. Her practice focuses on the politics of listening, the polyphony of voices, various forms of collaboration and poetry. She pays attention to the relationship between the exploitation of nature and women’s bodies. She received her bachelor’s degree from the Academy of Art, Architecture and Design in Prague. In 2021, she completed her master’s degree at the Dutch Art Institute in Arnhem. She has presented her works and performances at the Centre Pompidou in Paris, the Matter of Art Biennale in Prague, the PLATO gallery in Ostrava, and the Academiae – Youth Art Biennale in Bolzano, among others. She is the winner laureate of the 2020 Jindřich Chalupecký Prize and lives and works in Prague.

Iga Świeściak (1993, Poland) are* a performance/installation artist based in Berlin, who stages anti-linear, iconoclastic collages made of meticulously layered up errors and confused erotics. In various states of fuzziness, their practice is invariably grounded in body movement. Often involving the use of new media, mocking hi-tech sentiments and digital devices’ sex appeal, they try to distort the politics of representation and authenticity production. Explicit about its incompleteness, their work is built from modules itching for constant rearrangement that compile into spatial sketches, rehearsals, and prototypes. As they spill into one another, they fetch and exchange their own components. Świeściak presented their works, among others, in the National Museum in Szczecin, Centre Wallon Art Contemporain, Liege, Svetova 1 Gallery, Prague.

* gender neutral pronouns

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10:00-18:00

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