LABORATORY OF CCA
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Items which are lost in reality get reproduced as fantasies. Objects, relations and experiences which make life meaningful, allowing us to feel a fullness, satisfaction and safety, come back as non-existent images that create the phantasmatic moment of fulfillment.
HESHES is an autoerotic and androgynic "world of its own" and, simultaneously, seductive and visually exuberant futuristic fable. HESHES is an individual dream: it corresponds to the mystical Platonic ideal of a separate entity connecting both sexes. It can be seen as the accomplishment of a feminist postulate for sexual fluidity, osmotic interpenetration of feminine and masculine principles within the identity of a human being that has to cope with its present requirements. 
HESHES is an improved manifestation of the human species, existing beyond the suffering in a purely sexual and sensual dimension. Devoid of biological difference, equipped with masculine and feminine organs, onanistic and hermaphroditic. On the one hand, belonging to nature, and drawing from its resevoir of invigorating nectar, on the other utilizing the whole inventory of future technologies. HESHES exists beyond erotic taboo and shame and stays open to pleasures of sweet perversions. Death only serves as a breakthrough, cosmic dream-journey to other worlds.
HESHE's specialized corporeality is a promise of freedom, independence and unlimited access to pleasure which does not hide any form of punishment. Similarly, seductive HESHE portraits dreamed by Alicja, are pleasure-carriers: a voyeuristic pleasure of looking, staring and phantasizing about other life forms, complemented by her own desires.
Through hypnosis and dream, Alicja created an utopia and new genetic mutation, soothing the pain of the divided and fallen world. Paradoxically, if we glimpse a gentle shade of melancholy on HESHE's faces, it may be an indication of a longing for pain and division. The shadow of doubt which disturbs the phantasmatic ideal is unremovable in culture where dual fullness and androgyny was replaced by transvestite theatre and tragedy of trans-sexualism. This ambivalence penetrates through HESHE, leaving its imprint on her puzzling body and secretive existence. Gorgeous, blooming images and symbols created by Alicja are surprisingly colourful, picturesque, miraculous, fantastic and mysterious, what reflects the specific iconography and visuality of "fin de siecle" and millenial art. Once again, the androgyne myth has its central, redefined place within this milieu.
Alicja as an artist experiences the end of the millenium, looking at the world after world, introducing imagination-hungry subjects, and finally fleeing from civilization that nearly believed in its own end.
"HESHES. World after world" is a new PARADISE in which original sin, expulsion and discord never happened and they do not exist.