Maria Flawia Litwin finished her Masters of Fine Arts from York University (Toronto, Canada) in 2011 and has not stopped since then with solo exhibitions and several artistic residencies that have nurtured even more her extense body of work. Litwin is a visual artist who grew up in both Poland and Australia, in between 3 different languages, as she lived in Paris as well. She needs the image as the perfect way of express herself out of languages. Although she was trained as a sculptor in her Installation Master, Litwin’s work has no specific medium: she moves easily from textiles to performance, from acting to video art or fiction writing.
Maria is interested in image-making as a surrogate for answers about the world around her. In her site-specific project in Airgentum, she wanted to explore deep feelings like grief throughout movement into landscape, existential concerns brought up in the exploration. In her own words:
«My works are messages in a bottle to those before me, those far away and those in the future. The act of sending the message is futile.The message itself absurd and perhaps irrelevant.And yet, it is in this absurd existential futility that I find meaning»
Together in the desert before sunrise,
In the desert before the sunset we meet.We walk through the earth, pulsing red and moist,
yet to be cracked from the heat of the sun-
We come to pose a question.What is grief in the landscape?
We ask respectfully, stripped of conventions; our bodies naked, vulnerable, at the mercyof Nature to sustain or to perish. The soil stains our skin, feet awkwardly navigate the unfamiliar sensations as we re-learn to walk on earth.What is grief in the landscape?
Our bodies tremble becoming one with the red soil, coarse bark, engulfed by the desert ominous quietude.Sound of seeds germinating, an interruption to our presumption. The barren red sea of soil is not so.
Dying, living, dying, living, dying, living, dying, living
Whispers the landscape
liberating us of our question.
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