Ewa Dziarnowska’s newly commissioned performance engages with Kazuko Miyamoto’s sculptural work, particularly the string constructions and the pieces made of paper, rope, and twigs, installed on KW’s third floor.

Drawing from the hanging points in Miyamoto’s work, the performance responds to the artist’s (post-)minimalist approach to the geometrical grid and her interest in the body as an abstracted, erotic, and eccentric form.

Through the site-specific gesture of dance, Dziarnowska inhabits and probes the space, inscribing it temporarily through moments of connection, shelter, and solidarity. Echoing Miyamoto’s use of line and curvature, and the subtle insubordination within her approach to minimalism’s exactitude and its modes of production, Dziarnowska reflects on the body’s relationship to the city and the rhythms of artistic creation.

The performance also traces a line back to Miyamoto’s own practice,(...) [her] deepening engagement with spatial performativity and the politics of labor and display.