Summertale: Kozyra Basement, 2008
Archival pigment print
100 x 70 cm
Edition of 5 + 1 AP
Summertale, the final piece in Katarzyna Kozyra’s series In Art Dreams
Come True, consists of 13 videos of performances, quasi-theatrical
productions, and audience-engaging happenings. The photograph, that was
taken during the project, depicts Kozyra as a fairy-tale figure of a
woman who is "bound” by the symbolic cultural norms that refer to gender
and a woman's position in society. Kozyra wakes up the discussion on
what it means to be a woman in today’s world. Her works challenge the
fundamentals of how society judges and perceives a woman’s role in how
she exhibits herself in whatever endeavor she chooses.