Ala Savashevich
PhD Candidate, Doctoral School, Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow
BIO
Born in Belarus, currently lives and works in Wroclaw. Graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts in Wroclaw. Since 2021 a PhD student at the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow. In 2021, she won the scholarship of the Mayor of Wroclaw, the ING Polish Art Foundation award and the Warto 2021 award in the Visual Arts category. In her artistic practice, she often refers to the issues of her own past, history, trauma and body. She uses both monumental forms and video or performance, often exploring the limits of her own body. The artist’s works have been presented at exhibitions in Belarus, Ukraine, Poland, Germany and Austria.
Abstract
From body to object
In my artistic practice I often work with the issues of the body and physicality, because often what hurts mentally, also hurts us physically. Feelings at the level of the psyche and the body are always inseparably connected. Suppressed emotions are reflected in the behavior of the body, causing tension, restricted movement and physical pain.
Up to a certain point, it seemed to me that bodily knowledge could not be equal to out-of-body knowledge. I asked myself whether research in this direction may have any artistic value? In my research, I try to find connections and relationships between the knowledge related to the mind and the knowledge coming from the body, and to observe and study the forms that it takes.
Keywords: body, knowledge, tension, emotions, archive