FRAGILE
MAD Gallery, Poznań, Poland
2025
Amputation of Roots
Plaster bandage form, pastel, oil, resin coating
122 × 102 cm
2024
The medical materiality of the plaster and polymer coating captures the somatic memory of a painful rupture. Amputation here symbolizes both my personal experience of forced emigration and the collective Belarusian trauma of violent separation. The severed portion embodies a past that can no longer be integrated into reality. However, the remaining wound is not only a gaping absence, but also a space for the genesis of a new, hybrid identity. By transforming pain into an act of survival, this work bears witness to human resilience in the face of repressive systems that vainly demand absolute silence.
Lack
Mixed media (plaster bandage, oil, resin coating) on framed canvas
96 × 76 cm
2025
Inventory Number
Canvas, wood, fire, oil, resin coating
110 × 80 cm
2024
Fragile is a project that explores vulnerability through the image of the body as a breakable vessel. Using the visual language of wounds, bandages, bruises, and scars, the works reflect on trauma as something that remains inscribed in matter.
Rather than presenting healing as resolution, the project approaches it as an ongoing, nonlinear condition. Fragility appears here not as weakness, but as a form of endurance.
