Ewa Kaja, „Bez oddechu”
Absence and Fetish

Summary/Abstract: In May 2004, Ewa Kaja’s work was exhibited at the Manhattan Gallery in £ódŸ. The artist was born in 1967. She studied in £ódŸ and in Vienna. She had exhibited in Vienna, and her work can be found in Austrian museums of art. The exhibition in £ódŸ is her first show in Poland. In her installations, Kaja uses such props as coats and shirts. She prints on them photographs and the copies of obituaries she finds in newspapers. She is interested in the process of slow destruction of common objects. Often, she adds the photographs of the human figures to her installations. She particularly refers to a few social groups of people, including prisoners and blue-collar workers. She considers clothing as funeral accessories. I believe that the artist doesn’t want to show the symbols of people’s presence; rather, she wants to illustrate the fact that they are gone. Kaja’s work refers to the absence of people, whose personal belongings she collects.

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