Disappearing
Masters Diploma Project in Graphic Arts
The problem that I want to show in this work concerns the disappearance of human personality and identity as a result of dementia and neurocognitive diseases. Personal experiences, observations and stories from people with dementia, as well as reading scientific papers, inspired me for artistic exploration. The main idea of this project was to try to transfer acquired knowledge and experience into the universal and multidimensional language of art, broadcasting open to various interpretations graphic form. As a result, a space for conversation was created, which affects the viewer and his emotions, encouraging to reflection. In the modern world, in the everyday life’s rush, there is no time to stop, no free moment to think about life and what memory is… And this is our personal story, the thousand-piece puzzle of our live that shapes who we are and who we constantly become. Oliver Sacks wrote that biologically we are not so different from each other, but as a "story" - each of us is unique. Memory creates our identity. Losing it, we lose ourselves, we disappear...
“Each of us has our own life story, inner story – the continuity of which is our life. It can be said that each of us constructs and lives his “story”, and this story is our identity. If we want to get to know a man, we ask about his “story – his true, most intimate story” – because each of us is a story. Each of us is a story that we still write unconsciously – we write with our perception, feelings, thoughts, actions; and, which is by no means trivial, our conversations and passing on this story to others. Biologically, physiologically, we do not differ so much from each other as a “story”, a story - each of us is unique, unique. To be ourselves, we must have ourselves – have our life story and, if necessary, have it anew. We have to “remember” ourselves, remember our inner presentation, story. A man must have such a story, a story that is constantly told to himself, in order to be himself, to have an identity.“ (Sacks Oliver, The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, Zysk i S-ka Publishing House, Poznań 2017, p. 159)
Bruxelles Art Vue Prize Fall 2022 "Most Original Idea":
