June 13, 2026, 7:00 PM
Pawilon, branch of Galeria Miejska Arsenał, 1 Ewangelicka Street
Discussion with the artist after the second showing
Already in June, during Pride Month, Amazona Assem will present Hide a Body – a performance she worked on during her residency as part of Pawilon’s performance programme.
Amazona Assem is an interdisciplinary artist living in Poznań, a graduate of Intermedia at the Magdalena Abakanowicz University of the Arts Poznań. In her work, she explores themes related to identity and personality, bodily autonomy and biohacking, queer exile and diaspora, and speculative dystopias.
The starting point for Hide a Body is strongly personal and political themes. Amazona Assem explores unwritten narratives, drawing from fragmentary stories (including those of Lena Kyiv, Sally Morsi and Sara Hegazi) and their speculative development – the action takes place in the near future of the twenty-first century.
The work is a continuation of research into the areas of pharmaceutical control and the tactics and methodologies of global digital assimilation aimed at fighting it. It tells about transition, the global pharmaceutical economy and the era of pharmacopornography.
One of the inspirations for Hide a Body are the texts of Nawal el Saadawi on dissonance and political and social censorship, especially the play God Resigns at the Summit Meeting, in which the artist addresses the subject of combining religious analogies with the influence of contemporary colonialism.
Assem reflects on current political changes and current events, and also looks in this context at the butterfly effect and its impact on individual narratives across different temporal planes.