DEEPER

In DEEPER, Polish theater maker Gosia Wdowik deals with representations of gender-specific violence. Based on personal experience and interviews with teenagers in Warsaw, she critically examines the ongoing production and reproduction of images depicting female bodies in the context of sexuality and victimization. What impact do these images have on the lives of young people and what tactics do they develop to navigate the world under these impressions? In her new performance DEEPER, which will be premiered at the FestivalTheaterformen, she confronts fears and desires that have been shaped through a strong identification with media images and she brings them into conversation with testimonies of a young generation that is coming of age on the internet. With the help of professional actresses and local teenagers, Wdowik embarks on a journey into the dark imagination that haunts girls and women on their path to sexual self-determination.

Gosia Wdowik works as a theater maker both in the independent scene and at state theaters. In her more recent works, she has explored, among other things, the topic of social shame that can be associated with coming from a working-class background and dealt with the issue of physical emancipation. She also explored the space between exhaustion and agency by integrating methods from activism into her artistic practice. Her main question was: How can one create both theater and change from a place of exhaustion?