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Milena Soporowska

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I am an interdisciplinary artist, researcher and art historian, as well as a curator. My work focuses on the relationships between esotericism, everyday life and pop culture. I seek contemporary manifestations of concepts at the intersection of magic, science and pseudoscience, incorporating autobiographical elements or blending fiction with fact in my projects. Through assuming different roles, I explore the figure of the woman as a medium, spiritualist, fortune teller, or witch. I am an interdisciplinary artist, researcher and art historian, as well as a curator. My work focuses on the relationships between esotericism, everyday life and pop culture. I seek contemporary manifestations of concepts at the intersection of magic, science and pseudoscience, incorporating autobiographical elements or blending fiction with fact in my projects. Through assuming different roles, I explore the figure of the woman as a medium, spiritualist, fortune teller, or witch. 

I am particularly interested in the performative and aesthetic aspects of ritual-saturated spectacles, such as spiritualist séances, fortune-telling and witch trials. I analyse the role of fairy tales and legends as a means of processing difficult and brutal historical events. Drawing on critical heritage studies and Ariella Azoulay’s concept of potential history, I explore alternative approaches to constructing narratives about women, grounded in art-based research methods. 

I conduct my research at the Windowlicker gallery, which I founded at the New R Guzmán Market in Warsaw and which operates as an esoteric stall, as well as at the Hydroza artists’ collective. Since 2020, I have been associated with Radio Kapitał, where I produced the Tarotiada programme. I currently host the solo programmes Czeczota and Windowlicker, which deal with esoteric topics. 

My work incorporates photography, found objects, archival materials, performative techniques, text and sound. 

I have a degree in Art History from the College of Interdisciplinary Individual Studies in the Humanities (MISH) and a degree in Museology from the Faculty of History at the University of Warsaw. I also studied photography as part of the Sputnik Photos mentoring programme and at the Jastrzębska School of Documentary Photography. 

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