Badland, 2020
Video Installation, video in loop length 4 mins, mp4, cell phone with a power cable and earphones, table/a shelf, bowl, a spoon, chinese instant soup

Badland is part of the extensive documentation that I’ve kept since January 2019. The video installation is record of a telephone conversation between mother - daughter. The daughter is a teenage mother whose child was taken against her will from the hospital in second week after birth and taken into care of by a foster family. THE GIRL HAD NO RIGHT TO BREAST FEED OR VISIT THE BABY FOR THE FOLLOWING MONTHS. The foster family look after the baby until the girl reaches the age of majority. She became pregnant when she was in foster care and is currently in a mental hospital for smoking marijuana, losing contact with her son. By law in Poland, If a minor mother is from an orphanage, her child is put into adoption or with a foster family. Separated from her child, the girl feels hopeless as she has no contact with the baby and has no possibility of realising herself as a mother. She tries to adapt to the life in the ward. Chinese soup becomes part of the ritual that accompanies her daily routine. She is excluded from the group at the ward. The “brewing” is also an opportunity to buy in the favours of senior residents of a psychiatric hospital.