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SEVEN

Concept: Jarosław Fret and Monika Wachowicz

Performance: Monika Wachowicz

Music: Jakub Karpoluk (kotsuzumi), Jan Skopowski (cello)


On 15 and 16 December at 7:00 PM, the Performing Arts Centre of the Jerzy Grotowski Institute in Wrocław will host the premiere of the performance/installation entitled SEVEN. 

The performance inaugurates the establishment of the Wachowicz/Fret Studio. PJAIT lecturer Dr Jakub Karpoluk is participating in the project. 


S E V E N represents a full, completed stage (epoch) unique to itself. Upon its conclusion, a new one arrives as its consistent consequence. I wonder about my place among seven generations of women (since life still and invariably comes through an unbroken chain of births from a woman's body). Am I a single body myself, or do I carry past and future generations within me that remember, meet, and see themselves in my body? In the Egyptian language, "seven" (sfh) is linked to "to forgive – to forget".

The direct inspiration for the performance SEVEN is the 1978 short documentary film "Seven Women of Different Ages". Another inspiration is the exceptional, typewritten one-page script of the film "The Stairs" from 1970, preserved in the director's archive, which contains the foundational idea of "Seven Women...", a future documentary masterpiece.


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