Gosia Wdowik
Maker
Polish artist Gosia Wdowik (1988) explores self-determination and the resilience of the (female) body. Her performances are both presentations of in-depth analysis and invitations to transformation—in herself and in the audience.
Biography
Gosia completed her DAS Theatre Master's in Amsterdam in 2022 and is an active member of GILDIA (Union of Polish Theatre Makers). She has created various works in international co-productions: If you lived here (Mousonturm, Frankfurt) with Tamara Antonijevic; Transit Monumental (SpielArt, Munich); Fiasko (Staatstheater, Darmstadt); and Return of Goddess (Sophiensaele, Berlin)—all with K.A.U kollectief; Meisjes (Theater Studio, Warsaw) and Voetballers(TR Warsaw)—about the emancipation of the body. In her performance Shame (NOWY TEATR, Warsaw), she examined the relationship between social shame and the working class across three generations of women in her family.
During her studies in Amsterdam, she explored the space between personal exhaustion and self-determination around burnout, which led to her graduation performance She was a friend of someone else, which premiered at Kunstenfestivaldesarts in Brussels. This brought her to the question of how, as a maker, one can create change and performances from an exhausted body and a burning necessity. Expanding on this investigation she erected Body in Resistance at Frascati, a performative installation where, by centralizing her own body, she posed the question: “how can we let exhaustion be a collective and public feeling?”
For DEEPER (co-produced with CAMPO), Gosia delved deeply into gender-based digital violence and the idea of self-defense by engaging in conversations with teenagers.
Press
"She was a friend of someone else raises issues we rarely think about yet."
pzazz
"Wdowik invites us into a sluggish, dense and torpid world made of spilled glasses, heavy limbs and even heavier bedcovers in which everything is literally fuming with exhaustion."
Persinsala Teatro
"Poignant to see how role-affirming increasing conservatism is; how women must constantly fight for their position and freedom. In She was a friend of someone else, Wdowik exposes it as alarmingly as it is disillusioned."
Theaterkrant.nl
"With a powerful dramaturgy and a minimalist direction, Polish theatre-maker Gosia Wdowik explores the link between burnout and activism."
i.c.a.p.
"How do you keep fighting for something that can disappear at any moment?"
De Standaard
