Guided tour of the exhibition “Belladonna” by Tatiana Wolska

The exhibition Belladonna by Tatiana Wolska (born 1977 in Poland, lives and works in Brussels) nestles between the political and the intimate by offering a physical and cognitive experience where drawing merges with sculpture. Witches’ plant, good or magic weed known since Antiquity, Belladonna, is both the remedy and the poison reminding us that its use requires subtle handling as well as great knowledge. Through the history of this plant, the exhibition promotes proliferation and dialogue in order to unite the familiar and the strange, lightness and ardor, suggestion and claim. Tatiana Wolska’s graphic and volumetric works mutate into so many probable or undefined organic envelopes. By creating value to what does not last, the artist asserts an experimental and committed posture with this new work-construction in paper (torn, cut and stapled) alongside other works already produced. From the outside to the inside, from one body to another, from the plant to the human, it is our relationship to life cycles, to uprooting as well as to forms of emancipation and emancipation that is probed.

Throughout this project, stories and exchanges mingle and intersect to create the archive of a presence, that of the artist herself with those of other artists, activists, writers…