Milena Bonilla
Letter To a Roosting Tree, 2025
Intervention on a Horse Chestnut Tree, Ujazdowski Park, Warsaw.
Hand painted text on cotton banner and two inkjet prints on cotton paper
Hand painted text on cotton banner and two inkjet prints on cotton paper
Dimensions of the banner: 186 cm x 66,5 cm
Framed prints: 29,5 x 64 cm & 29,5 x 20,4 cm
Framed prints: 29,5 x 64 cm & 29,5 x 20,4 cm
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The work consists of a banner displayed on a horse-chestnut tree located at the park in front of the CCA Ujazdowski Castle. The tree communicates with the exhibition space through...
The work consists of a banner displayed on a horse-chestnut tree located at the park in front of the CCA Ujazdowski Castle. The tree communicates with the exhibition space through a print that shows a letter sent to Sophie Liebknecht by Rosa Luxemburg from prison in Wroclaw in 1917. The letter makes an account of a flock of crows passing and chatting among themselves up in the sky, above the prison yard where Rosa was among other prisoners. Rosa Luxemburg uses the onomatopoeia "Kau-Kau" for depicting the sound of the crows. The tree and banner can be seen from the window adjacent to the place where the letter is exhibited.