As a result of injury, a scar forms when the continuity of the body is broken. Connective tissue is then produced, which fuses the two pieces together, and then fills the space with a network of blood vessels to properly oxygenate the new-old body. “Skary f i k (S)a)) c JA” tells the story of the process of coming to terms with the grief of losing a loved one, of growing into one’s own loss in order to fill the space created between two separated pieces. From the excess of pain at the beginning, the self shrinks, and from the lack of self, it begins to overproduce matter. Usually, no trace remains after the incision. But what if the process of growing into oneself, filling the void, the hole, exceeds our wildest expectations, the brain does not interpret the signals correctly, and physiological obsession manifests itself in compulsive overproduction, and instead of a small discoloration on your hand, you see a huge collagen SOMETHING that never intends to stop growing.
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𝐌𝐚𝐠𝐝𝐚𝐥𝐞𝐧𝐚 𝐌𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐧
Visual artist, performer, painter, author and poet. Born in 1984, she graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Gdańsk in 2015 and continued her education with a scholarship at Sabancı University in Istanbul. She also participated in the two-year program “Visual Art and Research” at the Dutch Art Institute in the Netherlands. From 2013 to 2017, she was a resident of the Artists’ Colony, where as part of the open studio formula she began her artistic collaboration with Monika Wińczyk, which continues to this day. She presented her performance project Dialogues Not/Conducted, Letters Not/Sent at the Month of Performance Art in Berlin (2015) and at the Festival of New Theater in Rzeszów (2015), among others.
She is the author of What Happens Behind This Wall, Stays Behind This Wall (2012) and Skaryfik(s)a))cja (2018). Her poetic texts have also been published on the Splesz website, in the Warsaw magazine Wakat or in the collection of manifestos entitled Death of Patriarchy. Manifestos – The Revolution is Now!
In 2018, together with Kajetan Hajkowicz and Hubert Wińczyk, she created the Un-Titled performance shown at Teatr Ósmego Dnia in Poznań as part of the “OFF: Premieres/Presentations” competition, which was continued at the Malta Festival in 2020.
Since 2021, together with Andrzej Masko, Mellin has been organizing Dying – cyclical meetings revolving around performance at Klub Farby in Poznań. In 2023, she participated in the “A-Kumulacje 2023” competition, part of the Kalisz Art Biennial, and the 19 th Biennial of Poznań.
In her practice she tries to capture the processual and physical aspect of the image in the context of experience, memory and imagination.
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