Konstrukty cywilizacji i metafizyka transfiguracji w twórczości Romany Kaszczyc
Constructs of civilisation and the metaphysics of transfiguration in the work of Romana Kaszczyc

Summary/Abstract: Romana Kaszczyc – an artist concerned with nature, borderlands, peripheries, theWest Pomeranian and Lubusz lands, the Barlinecka Wilderness – dissolves in her work the ontological dimension of borders, while bringing into play the perspectives of neighbourhood relations, interdependence and diversity. Wilderness endures,irrespective of the conventional borders marked on the administrative map of Poland.However, it is also worth raising the question of whether culture is becoming– by greedily expanding its territory – nature’s neighbour, or perhaps its oppressor?In her work, Roma Barlinecka creates a world in which social patterns and rolesbecome a prison. Whereas, the coexisting binary reality of night and day, darknessand illumination, life and death is metaphysical in the artist’s eyes. Thus, is theborder transcendent, epistemological and independent of man? Above all, I wouldnot only like to commemorate a worthy artist who consciously chose to live in theborderlands, but also to look at the border itself, and how antagonisms betweenculture and nature, centre and periphery, global recognition and regionality aregenerated and constituted.Notwithstanding the goals above, the main research objective is to develop aninterpretation of selected culture-themed texts by Romana Kaszczyc in the light ofconsiderations of the semantic experience of the borderland. I will present a criticalstudy of literary and plastic works from a neo-regional and ecocritical perspective.The interpretations shall induce deliberations on neighbourhood relations, borderand ecocide. Research inspirations will be drawn from the scholarly output of, among others: Julia Fiedorczuk, Aleksandra Ubertowska, Tatiana Czerska, ElżbietaRybicka.

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