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The video is a document combining archival film photographs with statements by the artist and her contemporaries — historian dr Joanna Ostrowska, filmmaker Marcin Koszałka, and actress Klara Bielawka, who portrays the key protagonist. The film’s main theme is the stigmatization of victims of WW2, with particular emphasis on sexual slavery in Nazi concentration camps. The film devotes plenty of space to the paratheatrical staging of Bert Hellinger’s ‘systemic constellations’ method, which consists in creating a constellation of people meant to support the person in therapy. The artist depicts stories of female prisoners imprisoned in the camp puff (brothel).

The film brings attention to the systemic exploitation of women, subjected to a double male objectification: forcing women into prostitution and treating their bodies as a reward for selected prisoners. The often-unseen testimonies of female prisoners reveal further tragedy — being denied the status of a victim after the war. 

  • Object type:
    video
  • Year:
    2010
  • Duration:
    19 min 6 s
  • inv. no.:
    MNG/NOMUS/15/D
  • Własność:
    Deposit of the City of Gdańsk, part of the Gdańsk Collection of Contemporary Art
Anna Baumgart, Świeże wiśnie, 2010. Depozyt Gminy Miasta Gdańska w ramach Gdańskiej Kolekcji Sztuki Współczesnej, fot. © Archiwum MNG
fot. © Archiwum MNG
  • Object type:
    video
  • Year:
    2010
  • Duration:
    19 min 6 s
  • inv. no.:
    MNG/NOMUS/15/D
  • Własność:
    Deposit of the City of Gdańsk, part of the Gdańsk Collection of Contemporary Art

The video is a document combining archival film photographs with statements by the artist and her contemporaries — historian dr Joanna Ostrowska, filmmaker Marcin Koszałka, and actress Klara Bielawka, who portrays the key protagonist. The film’s main theme is the stigmatization of victims of WW2, with particular emphasis on sexual slavery in Nazi concentration camps. The film devotes plenty of space to the paratheatrical staging of Bert Hellinger’s ‘systemic constellations’ method, which consists in creating a constellation of people meant to support the person in therapy. The artist depicts stories of female prisoners imprisoned in the camp puff (brothel).

The film brings attention to the systemic exploitation of women, subjected to a double male objectification: forcing women into prostitution and treating their bodies as a reward for selected prisoners. The often-unseen testimonies of female prisoners reveal further tragedy — being denied the status of a victim after the war. 

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