Teresas Körper

The knees, the back, the elbows, the neck: Teresa’s body appears repeatedly and almost programmatically as a fragment in Magdalena Chmielewska’s portrait of her mother. Teresa is a woman divided into parts: while outwardly intact, her permanently exhausted body, preferring to wrap itself in camouflage clothing, bears deep wounds. “My spine is going to break at any moment,” she ...