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HERSTORY – PAINTED WITH POLISH

Martyna Ścibior

Dates

27.06.25 / Friday, 10:00
wydarzenie archiwalne 2025

Dates

27.06.25 / Friday, 10:00
wydarzenie archiwalne 2025

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As part of the HERSTORY by HISTORY Channel project, artist Martyna Ścibior invites women to co-create a painting using their nail polishes. On aluminum sheets, an abstract composition will emerge – a personal, collective, and ecological story of female presence and connection. The nail polishes Martyna works with are not just artistic materials – they are carriers of intimate stories. Each bottle has witnessed daily life, choices, emotions. Collected from women, they become traces of presence, gestures of tenderness or strength, extensions of identity. What was once considered waste gains new life in the form of color, layer, and narrative. 

As part of the HERSTORY by HISTORY Channel project, Martyna Ścibior invites women to join in creating a collaborative painting using nail polish. On four large aluminum sheets, an abstract composition will form through individual gestures – rectangular marks that resemble the motion of painting a fingernail. Each participant may bring her own polish, donate leftovers, or use colors provided by others. The collaborative work will begin outdoors and be moved indoors once complete. This artistic action is not only an opportunity for creative exchange but also a symbolic reflection on diversity, attentiveness, and female solidarity. The painting session will last one day. These are gestures that will remain – in color, in form, and in memory.

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