The Source, 2025, Performance/Curated Walk during HOMECOMING 11th festival of Ephemeral Art Contexts

For this performance, Weronika and I each wrote the other’s biography, in the first person, as if it were our own. At the start of the walk, we asked participants to choose who they would like to follow — but without telling them that the stories we were about to read were, in fact, each other’s. I was speaking as Weronika, and she as me.

The walk led us to Waldquelle — a 19th-century forest spring, once built to offer water to passing hikers. It has since been moved from its original site and no longer functions. Like many things in Sokołowsko, it carries traces of loss and erosion. The sculpture is damaged, one deer and two gnomes have disappeared, and just weeks before our arrival, it was set on fire. For our intervention, we reimagined and partially restored the spring: I created a relief of the missing gnomes and placed it where they once stood. Weronika knitted a water stream — a gesture toward the original purpose of the source.

HOMECOMING 11th festival of Ephemeral Art Contexts

Curated by Marta Czyż