DEEPER

For her new performance DEEPER, Polish theater maker Gosia Wdowik explores the issue of gender-based violence and its representation. Based on interviews with teenagers, Wdowik critically examines the ongoing reproduction and cultivation of images that frame female bodies in a conflation of sexuality and violence, and how these bodies invite, resist and disrupt this all-too-familiar form of objectification. What impact do these images have on the lives of adolescents and what tactics do they develop to navigate the world under these impressions? With the help of professional actresses, Wdowik is working on a performance to create a space for dialogue between different generations of women, and for shared reflection, emotional processing, and solidarity.