FISCAL MANDALA 2018
The installation is a work that explores the themes of excess, consumption, and the loss of meaning in everyday shopping rituals. It was created using receipts collected during Advent, transformed into origami modules, and arranged in the form of the Mandala of Compassion (Chenrezig Avalokiteshvara). The monotonous, mechanical process of folding useless receipts becomes here a meditative and simultaneously critical gesture—an attempt to regain mindfulness in the face of ubiquitous consumption. The spontaneous destruction of the mandala, amateurishly recorded on Christmas Eve, constitutes a symbolic act of resistance and purification. The currently reconstructed mandala is placed in a display case (100 x 100 x 15 cm) and is accompanied by a short video recording of the process of its destruction. Over time, I observed that the receipts began to fade, introducing a dimension of transience and self-purification of matter into the work, emphasizing the ephemeral nature of both the object and the system that produced it. Thanks to a KPO scholarship for culture, I was able to scan the mandala using 3D technology and prepare it for digitization, which I present on the website in a 3D viewer and in augmented reality. The results of this work were presented at the group exhibition ROZWARSTWIENIA /NIE/WIDZIANEGO at the Center for Contemporary Art in Toruń.

The premiere project within the ART for ADVENT Project for MURZE MAGAZINE (UK) involved documenting each day of work during Advent. It consists of 26 photographs and a video from Christmas Eve—December 24, 2018. The mandala was published in Muze Magazine, featured in the solo exhibition Paper Rebus, and participated in the international exhibition Concept 2019 at the Chong Institute for Contemporary Art in Gimpo (South Korea), the Lucca Biennale in Italy, and in Warsaw, Olsztyn, Cieszyn, and Toruń.