08. Siennik / Palliasse
The body of work centers on a neglected everyday object—a straw mattress (in Polish, ‘siennik’)—as a site for investigating the emergence of a political subject, reflecting conditions created by systems of oppression, including class, poverty, and unpaid labor and migration.
Palliasse symbolizes a kind of horizontality of labor, expressed in a multitude of functions that serve as acts of resistance against power, desire against domination, relationships against rule, and the body against authority.
The body of work centers on a neglected everyday object—a straw mattress (in Polish, ‘siennik’)—as a site for investigating the emergence of a political subject, reflecting conditions created by systems of oppression, including class, poverty, and unpaid labor and migration.
Palliasse symbolizes a kind of horizontality of labor, expressed in a multitude of functions that serve as acts of resistance against power, desire against domination, relationships against rule, and the body against authority.
2019
Single channel video with audio,
6:47 min, drywall, wood, concrete, chalkboard paint, framed print, canvas, hay
Images: Rafael Hernandez
Single channel video with audio,
6:47 min, drywall, wood, concrete, chalkboard paint, framed print, canvas, hay
Images: Rafael Hernandez