Through time and archives, between borders and genders, we emancipate ourselves from the power of the male gaze towards what is unclear, exaggerated, and sensitive.

From the Middle Ages to modern times, the figure of the female martyr has represented the tension between physical suffering and spiritual exaltation, between violence and holiness, between femininity and its radical transcendence.

Looking at masculinity is not an easy task. For how do you look at a phenomenon which, as a result of centuries of social norms, has been taken for granted and, in its obviousness, almost transparent?

The common area of interest linking the creative explorations of Joanna Tochman and Daria Wollman is the concept of landscape and its perception as a cultural construction, a set of representations, myths and legends and the human emotions projected onto it. 

Total removal will be preceded by phenomena born of greed, morbid overproduction and hatred. Clouds will take the form of ATMs, shopping malls will be lit on live fire and trees and bushes will bear fruit with product packaging. 

We need a new land art that resists treating nature as an inert material, to remind us that we all live and die as earthly beings.