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Dominika Piętak

born 1990, Biłgoraj

A graduate of Faculty of Sculpture and Intermedia of Academy of Fine Arts in Gdańsk (2016). Her master’s degree was nominated for ArtNoble 2017 competition as the best diploma of public art university. Since 2018 she has been working at University of Information Technology and Management in Rzeszów as an assistant at Department of Computer Graphics. She creates objects, installations, spatial forms, photographs, and video.


“BIŁ-GO-RAJ (BEAT-HIM-PARADISE)”, 2019
installation

The work consists of two boards of the city plan of Biłgoraj, which is divided with a band of moss. The boards were found in the former barn in the artist’s yard. Her family reports show that during the Polish People’s Republic (PRL) a two-part plan decorated the Biłgoraj market. The key word of this work is paradise. In 1606, a song “Poland is a paradise for Jews, hell for peasants, heaven for the nobility” was published in Latin, with grossly anti-Semitic overtones. The vision of Poland as Paradisus Judaeorum is a myth that authorities are happy to use also nowadays. The work refers to this myth, which refutes the evidence of forest murders of Jews by Poles.