Studio Wachowicz/Fret is a creative duo whose first completed project, “Sheol/ שְׁאוֹל,” was created in December 2021. The Studio’s work is dedicated to the interpenetration of theater and performance art, and their complementary genres in every stage act. The hybridity and openness of the forms the Studio develops mean that the works created within subsequent projects are described as performative installations, séances, or simply—actions. Their common denominator remains sonority and an exceptional sensitivity to sound and the vibrations associated with even the smallest action. The creators regularly collaborate with numerous artists who value musical sensitivity, recognizing its primary character in defining what is interpersonal and all-too-human. The Studio’s works are constructed primarily using theatrical tools derived from the tragic, not the dramatic, tradition. This is an intravenous Hearing of the World!
Seven signifies a complete, completed stage (era) unique to itself. After its conclusion, a new one arrives, its consistent consequence. I ponder my place among seven generations of women (as long as Life continues to come, invariably, thanks to the unbroken chain of births from a woman’s body). Am I a single body, or do I carry within me past and future generations who remember, meet, and see each other in my body? In Egyptian, “seven” (sfh) means “to forgive – to forget.”
Krzysztof Kieślowski has permeated my life since I realized I wanted to pursue art. His films taught me a special way of looking, listening, and remaining somewhere in the world between, suspended, where words end their journey and images and emotions persist. The direct inspiration for the performance “Seven” is the 1978 short documentary “Seven Women of Different Ages.” Another inspiration is a unique, one-page 1970 typescript of the film “Stairs,” preserved in the director’s archives. It contains the basic idea for “Seven Women…”, a future documentary masterpiece.
Monika Wachowicz
Concept: Jarosław Fret and Monika Wachowicz
Text: Jarosław Fret and Monika Wachowicz
Stage movement, costumes, and performance: Monika Wachowicz
Live music: Jakub Karpoluk (Japanese ko-tsuzumi drum)
The performance features Olivier Messiaen’s “Quartet for the End of Time.”
Video editing: Jarosław Siejkowski
Premiere: August 2023
Duration 50 minutes
Free admission.
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