Bitchies, 2004

The artist has found and photographed comments on women written on bus stops, trains, and in other public places. She has stated that those shown at the exhibition were the ‘weakest’ ones, still, there are many very offensive swear words there. What is the function of those texts? Are they a manifestation? Where are they so obscene and aggressive? Who is their addressee? Is a flower given on March 8 a payment for the acquiescence in the face of insults throughout the year? 'For the artist, they are primarily a document of the manner in which people think about women and a proof of cultural contrasts. I was the most intrigued by the use of an invective in a diminutive, almost affectionate form: 'Hello, little bitches!' Did some enamored man actually want to offend and compliment women at the same time? That project required becoming more sensitive to exceptionally absurd communication situations in which there was neither a sender nor a receiver. Although inscriptions of that kind are not rare in our environment, few people admit to having written them. (I have always read with interest the invocations in the toilets of the university library, surprised at the floweriness of the language of intellectuals, much richer, by the way, than the language in Laura’s photographs). What is more, passers-by are completely indifferent to those highly aggressive inscriptions.' MONIKA BRANICKA, CO 'LUDZIE MOWIA' CZYLI HISTORIA PEWNYCH NIEPOROZUMIEN NA LINII SZTUKA-ZYCIE, 'OBIEG' [MONIKA BRANICKA, WHAT 'PEOPLE SAY', THAT IS, A STORY OF SOME MISUNDERSTANDINGS BETWEEN ART AND LIFE, 'OBIEG'

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