Dear Madam

Filipka + Dear Madam + Passing as a Great Grey Owl + Last Things

Experimental video consisting of the initial sentences of the newsletter sent by the Ordo Iuris Institute for Legal Culture. Selection from the years 2022 and 2021. Due to several years of subscription to this news channel the author is able to take a look at the daily life in Poland from the perspective of the Institute that describes itself in the following way: The Ordo Iuris Institute is an independent legal think-tank that, in the years of its activity, has built up an international renown of one of the key centers of defending legal culture based in the identity of European civilization, raised on the pillars of Greek philosophy, Roman law and Christian ethics. At the time when basic rights are being perverted and the ideas of human rights – instrumentalized, we guard their true meaning and aim (translated from: https://ordoiuris.pl/kim-jestesmy ).

Realised within the framework of the QUEERSTORIES project organised by the IZOLYATSIA Platform for cultural initiatives and Galeria Labirynt. Project funded by the Goethe-Institute Ukraine and the European Union within the framework of the HOUSE OF EUROPE programme (www.izolyatsia.org, www.labirynt.com).

Liliana Zeic (formerly Piskorska) – born in 1988, visual artist, queer feminist, PhD in fine arts.

In her artistic practice, she analyses social issues from the feminist-queer perspective, deals with the topics of queerness and non-heteronormativity, and draws on her experiences of being brought up in the region of Central/Eastern Europe. She works with video, photography, object and text, creating intermedia and performative research-based projects.

She is a finalist of the Forecast Forum in Haus der Kulturen der Welt in Berlin in 2017 and the Audience Award Winner: Views 2019 in Zachęta National Gallery of Art. She has taken part in over 130 individual and group exhibitions in Poland and abroad.  Her works are part of private and public collections (incl. Zachęta National Gallery of Art, Wrocław Contemporary Museum, Municipal Gallery Arsenał). She collaborates with Lokal 30 Gallery.