Embryo
The sculpture is a visual interpretation of the birth process. It contains two main visual elements: the opening at the bottom (in the shape of human arms as a physical part of a body feature) and the “closing" pipe hanging in the air. The space between these to ends is invisible for a viewer as a moment of the birth- unconscious individual process. The visual image should be closely connected with the biological, embryon- like expression. A human being is in a continuous process of creation/development. Paradoxically in this sequence, the final moment of birth is equal to death. According to T S Eliot in my “beginning is my end”. Movement from impulsive but linear hatching is transformed into the image of convulsive death. Like a dying animal, a few more jerks of the body and it is over, we are here imprisoned in our lives. The bottom “human arms shape “ allows the performer to stuck his hands inside(hands inside the cast: strongly but not too fast, fists clenched, then muscles - slowly - relax).
In the very literal sense, this image shows the irreparable inseparable connection between single human being and his only comfort zone which is a mother’s
womb. The tragedy of birth has nothing to do with justice. In this sequence, the tragedy is a personification of the atonement for the original sin and the eternal, irreversible sin of birth.
Based on: "bon bon il est un pays" by Samuel Beckett.
Cast: Diter Rita Scholl
Director of photography: Maciej Siennicki
Adaptation: Zuzanna Rygielska Krystian Jarnuszkiewicz
Sculptures: Krystian Jarnuszkiewicz