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YAGA is a photobook about the idea of emancipation of socially excluded women that the system finds inconvenient. It provides a subjective view of women and inequality existing even in the queer world, where men still get more space for telling their stories than non-heteronormative women who seem to go out of sight.
YAGA is a very personal book. I think it came about mainly because I was sick of being silent. It’s the kind of silence of shared history that, after years of hiding and shame, becomes part of oneself. But my personal silence has turned into something quite the opposite, into a sort of eccentric exhibitionism. I want to be seen at last. It’s compulsive, like most things in my life. I’m torn between the extremes. I think my lesbian life in Poland has done that to me to some extent. Tranquility and children are two things that I fear even more than death. Death seems more familiar.
Agata Kalinowska
Agata Kalinowska – photographer, writer and bartender affiliated with BWA Wrocław, Ośrodek Postaw Twórczych (Creative Arts Centre), and the Wrocław bar scene. Her interests include the experiences of the precariat, which she documents on her blog relativelyhuman.blogspot.com. Agata’s work has been presented in Poland and abroad. Her exhibition Just Don’t Fall in Love, held at the Miejsce przy Miejscu Gallery in Wrocław in 2015 and curated by Łukasz Rusznica, enjoyed immense popularity. Her dummy SCUM was shortlisted for the Kassel Dummy Award in 2018 and made it to the finals of the Gomma Grant 2019. YAGA, created in collaboration with Łukasz Rusznica, was released by BWA Wrocław in August 2021.
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