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Katarzyna Kozyra

Katarzyna Kozyra

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.