Czytanie (z) roślin. Obraz i słowo w twórczości Urszuli Zajączkowskiej

Abstract

In „Reading (from) Plants”, the oeuvre of Urszula Zajączkowska, specifically her films and poetry is examined within an eco-posthuman framework. The objective is to demonstrate how the poet-botanist expands the scientific idiom to include other methods of speaking about reality, using various, mutually complementary media and arriving at a coherent artistic project, in which image and words simultaneously overcome dichotomous divisions. Zajączkowska’s gesture of surmounting the scholarly discourse enables the relationships between human and non-human protagonists in her work to function on an equality basis; the hierarchies are invalidated and as a result the reader/viewer may look at the world with greater attention and lucidity of mind.