BLACK SUNS, WHITE MOONS—DEATH IN THE ART OF ALINA SZAPOCZNIKOW AND ANGELIKA MARKUL

Abstract

Both of the artists are painfully honest, and through pain, they talk about death. Rarely ever is it naïve and trivial, sometimes it is serious and acute, frequently it is metaphorical and literal. Death reoccurs in the lives and works of these two women quite often. Alina Szapocznikow and Angelika Markul—two artists operating within different historical-artistic spaces—they tell a shocking tale in a specific feminine language. The tale of slow vanishing, crushing destruction, about that exhalation which is not followed by another inhalation.