Femina Ludens

How much space do we have left for play and experimentation in our largely automated lives where everything has to be done as efficiently as possible? In her work, Kitty Maria investigates this space for play, placing herself in companies to study production processes up close. Sometimes she takes part in them herself and at other times her presence provides a strange interruption to the daily routine. For instance, the Femina Ludens exhibition features the video Saw Mill Gdansk_ 22-10-2021, in which the artist performs artistic performances in a sawmill in Poland. Amid the seemingly unruffled production taking place there, she seeks rapprochement with the heavy machinery and briefly tries to relieve it of its high workload. Femina Ludens, which literally means ‘woman at play’, is a call for small-scale economic resistance and claiming space for experimentation, play and feminism. Whereas our current economy is based on a traditional and masculine model centred on profit and economic growth, Kitty Maria puts other values first.