IGA
KONCKA
Iga Koncka is a visual artist, primarily working with the medium of photography. She was born in Poland, currently living in Wales. Koncka uses different mediums to explore components of human identity, idea of individual freedom and exploring boundaries of the imaginary and the real. Her practice works with photography, digital and analogue collage, video- works and installations. Inspired by Modern Art and New Vision of 20th century photographers her visual language of the world is rather conceptual. Her playful artistic approach marries strong contemporary documentary issues. She just graduated Documentary Photography at the University of South Wales, Cardiff.
“If our voices are essential aspects of our humanity, to be rendered voiceless is to be dehumanized or excluded from one’s humanity. And the history of silence is central to women’s history. Violence against women is often against our voices and our stories (Solnit, 2015).”
The feminist movement in Poland is needed now more than ever before. The Constitutional Tribunal announced an anti-abortion law in Poland in October 2020, which made almost all cases of abortion illegal under the rules of dominant party Law and Justice (Prawo i Sprawiedliwość).
Polarity is a dialogue between control, violence and religion, and symbols of
womanhood and represents the frustration and anger of the unfolding dramaturgy
taking place in Poland. Performance bridges the gap between truth and fantasy.
Post- truth statements are used to be published on a daily basis in Polish media, in
in order to support social control over women’s bodies. Propaganda values the use of photography and film, and blindfold as a symbol of repression performed the
expectation and restrictions of Polish women. My activism is born from observation
and a desire to confront invisibility and disempowerment. Polarity is made to
celebrate women’s power, to manifest the stories of those who are seen to be public enemies and a threat to the state.
