Memory Substance Juicing Barbie DNA with Ancestral Purification in Accelerating Decelerating Macabre
Time: 1.–29.4.2022
Place: Hippolyte Studio, Helsinki, Finland
https://hippolyte.fi/ Memory Substance Juicing Barbie DNA with Ancestral Purification in Accelerating Decelerating Macabre (kubaparis.com)
Someone proposed the timeline–to meet in the past–’86 and then in the future. Don’t remember
the exact coordinates. Perception was shifting, changing, stretching, no longer able to communicate.
We were still talking. Using gestures as language. Rhythmic movements of wizards producing magic
and soup, in the vastness of the shared energy.
All the images from witches to churches, coders, queens, mothers, cast bronze appendages, screens,
tablets, phones, photo frames, clay structures, and superheroines like Xena were passing by, juicing
Barbie DNA with ancestral purification in accelerating decelerating macabre. Music was repeatedly
saying: respect. This time the orgasmic sensations in a shared peeing ceremony were very intense.
On her phone she had an app installed with white noise. Vagina was sending signals about what’s
good and what’s bad through the active process of digging, firing, shaping feminist narratives. A soup
out of videos, Barbies, mythologies, mushrooms, clay, leaves and words, and pour it all on the walls.
The device at the centre of the exhibition is a “Video Girl” Barbie doll. It is a 2010 special edition
Barbie with a video camera and playback unit embedded in its body; a device that allows for the
expression of vulnerability, humour, playfulness, and transversality. Czyżyk’s work plays with the
concept of HAL–a fictional AI from Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey–by proposing a
reimagined, non-male version of the character in the form of Athena Barbie.
Contributors from around the world received their own “Video Girl” from the artist to film their
unique viewpoints, stories and personal perspectives of the times we are living in. Their
contributions have been transformed from narrative single channel film into one organic piece,
BOdyssey archive (2016-2022)—a memory substance.
The archive includes a video, This is cosmic, recorded in Kiev in 2017 and edited in 2022. It features
artists and activists who are fighting for Ukraine. To support them, a printed screenshot from the
video is available for purchase at the gallery: all proceeds from the sale will be sent to artists,
activists and organisations in Ukraine.
Place: Hippolyte Studio, Helsinki, Finland
https://hippolyte.fi/ Memory Substance Juicing Barbie DNA with Ancestral Purification in Accelerating Decelerating Macabre (kubaparis.com)
Someone proposed the timeline–to meet in the past–’86 and then in the future. Don’t remember
the exact coordinates. Perception was shifting, changing, stretching, no longer able to communicate.
We were still talking. Using gestures as language. Rhythmic movements of wizards producing magic
and soup, in the vastness of the shared energy.
All the images from witches to churches, coders, queens, mothers, cast bronze appendages, screens,
tablets, phones, photo frames, clay structures, and superheroines like Xena were passing by, juicing
Barbie DNA with ancestral purification in accelerating decelerating macabre. Music was repeatedly
saying: respect. This time the orgasmic sensations in a shared peeing ceremony were very intense.
On her phone she had an app installed with white noise. Vagina was sending signals about what’s
good and what’s bad through the active process of digging, firing, shaping feminist narratives. A soup
out of videos, Barbies, mythologies, mushrooms, clay, leaves and words, and pour it all on the walls.
The device at the centre of the exhibition is a “Video Girl” Barbie doll. It is a 2010 special edition
Barbie with a video camera and playback unit embedded in its body; a device that allows for the
expression of vulnerability, humour, playfulness, and transversality. Czyżyk’s work plays with the
concept of HAL–a fictional AI from Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey–by proposing a
reimagined, non-male version of the character in the form of Athena Barbie.
Contributors from around the world received their own “Video Girl” from the artist to film their
unique viewpoints, stories and personal perspectives of the times we are living in. Their
contributions have been transformed from narrative single channel film into one organic piece,
BOdyssey archive (2016-2022)—a memory substance.
The archive includes a video, This is cosmic, recorded in Kiev in 2017 and edited in 2022. It features
artists and activists who are fighting for Ukraine. To support them, a printed screenshot from the
video is available for purchase at the gallery: all proceeds from the sale will be sent to artists,
activists and organisations in Ukraine.
Devil’s Tree Frog -Frogo, 2021, bronze, 22 x 6 x 6 cm
Installation view
Gynoid 2, 2022, tailored PVC print, fimo clay, 185 x 30 x 20 cm
Gynoid 1, 2022, PVC, chameleon paint, bronze, leather, sandstone, VideoGirl Barbie dolls, 175 x 30 x 20 cm
Gauntlet 1, 2021, bronze, leather, VideoGirl Barbie doll, 36 x 11 x 0,5 cm
Gauntlet 2, 2021, bronze, leather, 19 x 10 x 0,5 cm
Pauldron, 2021, bronze, leather, 35 x 48 x 0,5 cm
Pauldron, detail
Greave, 2021, bronze, leather, 18 x 12 x 0,5 cm
Monika Czyzyk exhibition. Memory substance juicing Barbie dna with ancestral purification in accelerating decelerating macabre.
Suits, 2018, tailored prints on fabrics, plexiglass, metal bolts, tape, 49 x 61 x 2 cm
Bodyssey Craft, 2022, glazed ceramic, pearls, cinnamon sticks, hairy fabric, 45 x 40 x 27 cm
Installation view
Techno-messianistic-shroom 1, 2021, glazed ceramic, aluminium film can, screws, 26 Ø cm
Techno-messianistic-shroom 2, 2021, glazed ceramic, aluminium film can, screws, 26 Ø cm
BOdyssey Interlude, 2022, HD video, stereo, sound, 36 min, 32” screen, glazed ceramics, headphones, silver duct tape, 60 x 40 x 75 cm
Thank you artist ancestors for accepting me to your community, 2022, red clay collected from: Radoszyce (PL), Sippo (FI), Chiusure (IT), mp4 players, USB hub, plexiglass, 80 x 66 x 44 cm, The installation includes: 2 s out of 6000 clips, 2022, SD video, colour, stereo, 30 min Zofia Krawiec in Bodyssey, 2022, SD video, colour, stereo, 10 min Susan Wenger’s Shrine, 2018, SD video, colour, stereo, 7 min BOdyssey Launch, 2022, SD video, colour, stereo, 6 min Women’s march, 2016 SD video, colour, stereo, 8 min
Thank you artist ancestors for accepting me to your community, detail
Thank you artist ancestors for accepting me to your community, detail
Frogo Knitix 1-2-3, 2022, Digital print on a carpet, 60 x 80 cm,
Installation view
This Is Cosmic, 2017, 12 min, HD video, stereo sound, glazed ceramic, silver duct tape, mp4 player, headphones, 33 Ø cm
Ceps, No Nipples, 2017, 40 min, HD video, stereo sound, 10’screen, aluminium cast, 60 x 22 x 10 cm
