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Things are what we want to see them. Or, to put it differently: we see them as we want to hear them told to us. Telling stories about things (but also people, plants, insects, bacteria and others) begins with naming them. Sometimes, therefore, one word equals a thousand images (although it is usually said that it is the other way around). The rank of things is written in language, often defining a place in the hierarchy, assigning them to the category of trophies or leftovers and waste. A stick, dust or a bush belong to the latter category. In Zuzanna Stempska’s art, sticks are material, but also a totem, a relic, a transmitter and even a letter – depending on our constantly changing needs. The less we see (or: the more fragile the evidence), the greater the need to add a story. A poor object is what we see and something completely different. In a museum frame it becomes an allegory, an anecdote, a strange tool. It is what we want it to become.
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Things are what we want to see them. Or, to put it differently: we see them as we want to hear them told to us. Telling stories about things (but also people, plants, insects, bacteria and others) begins with naming them. Sometimes, therefore, one word equals a thousand images (although it is usually said that it is the other way around). The rank of things is written in language, often defining a place in the hierarchy, assigning them to the category of trophies or leftovers and waste. A stick, dust or a bush belong to the latter category. In Zuzanna Stempska’s art, sticks are material, but also a totem, a relic, a transmitter and even a letter – depending on our constantly changing needs. The less we see (or: the more fragile the evidence), the greater the need to add a story. A poor object is what we see and something completely different. In a museum frame it becomes an allegory, an anecdote, a strange tool. It is what we want it to become.
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