Be Together - integration and art

Be Together is a project that integrates people with disabilities and non-disabled people using artistic tools.

This year, Paulina Galanciak-Ilczyszyn - the creator of the wonderful integration project Be Together - integration and art invited me to lead one of the groups. We spent a week in the mountains creating our own interpretations of security worlds. We sewed, we made music and we were in nature.

The exhibition 'Shelter' was created, which has acquired a broader context for me in recent weeks. She also became a voice for me about the migration crisis, the critical situation on the border of my country, the spaces in between, Bardo. About shelters that are needed and that are not there.

The exhibition "Shelter" is an intimate story about the worlds that we create and that protect us. About inner lands with their own textures, sounds and landscapes. About places that are always available, regardless of external circumstances.

'“Shelter” is the language of the land where there is room to be who you are. It is immersion in the symbolism of a world that is good and safe. The one who protects. Without having to put on your armor and pretend to be someone else. Interpretation of what is inside into stories told with hands, fabrics, threads and needles.

Role: Exhibition Designer, Workshop facilitator
Cooperation: Paulina Galanciak-Ilczyszyn, Ewa Budnik, Oliwa Drozdowicz, Jerzy Wypych
Photos: Jerzy Wypych