TRIVIA, 2022
documentation of the performative act
70x100cm
Most often scratches appear in our childhood. We are not afraid of anything, we are not careful, we are free, we are too curious, we touch everything and everywhere.
As adults, scratches appear much less often: from playing with a cat, minor domestic troubles, careless movement in a hurry.
We are protected by the experience gained over the years, which does not allow us to get hurt, warning where there may be danger.
Fearlessness, curiosity, childhood pass quickly, and with them scratches - thin incomplete wounds. A little more and there would have been a scar. But no, it didn't. But we are not particularly attentive to scratches.
“It's nothing,” adults tell us, "it will heal before the wedding."
“It's nothing," we say, "looking at these strokes that resemble drawings.
Scratches as a warning that it could be worse. But scratches from childhood are part of us, right?