VIII. Strength // Ewa Mrozikiewicz
self-awareness, self-acceptance, self-love, inner peace, transformation, positive disintegration
Strength card traditionally depicts a woman straddling a lion, accompanied by the infinity sign. It is charged with healing energy and the lesson that we can learn about our dark instincts, the dark corners of our soul, and turn them into power. It enhances the positive transformation of traumas, fears, and complexes. Infinity symbolizes the journey inward and a lifelong journey of self-development, but also multigenerational traumas that we can only heal during our conscious existence. It motivates us to step into a sense of our own power, but also indicates a great need for compassion towards ourselves and others, as the path it suggests is not an easy one. Our version of the card is threefold strong and feminine; the lion has turned into a multiplied vagina and merged with the heroine. The symbolism of the drawing refers to the ancient positive meaning, affirming the female womb and pointing to the connection with it and with the cyclical nature of life, as the source of the greatest power.
Ewa Mrozikiewicz (born 1990) - visual artist and art curator. She graduated from art education (specializations: art criticism and promotion and curatorial strategies and culture promotion) at the University of Arts in Poznan (2015). At her home university she teaches subjects related to curating and organizing exhibitions. In 2016 she worked as a curator at the Centre for Contemporary Art at the Old Market in Poznan. She is fascinated by moments of error and failure, editor-in-chef of the author’s magazine Important Art Magazine. She is a co-founder of FWD: Gallery, where she promotes conceptual art and curatorial experiments. Author of the Piękna Katastrofa blog (eng. Beautiful Disaster, www.pieknakatastrofa.pl). She has organized over fifty niche exhibitions, cultural events, meetings, and creative workshops, thanks to which she experienced professional burnout at a young age. Together with Ania Rulecka she created the project Ask Mokosh, a series of exhibitions and meetings with a leitmotif of feminine community and sisterly strength. Her work has been shown at exhibitions: Howling for the Thirtieth of February at a private venue in Poznan (2020), the exhibition of the Winners of the Artistic Scholarships of the City of Poznan (2018), the Art Gallery Rozruch in Poznan, during the guerrilla art action We have no Mess/age as part of the Antwerp Art Weekend at the Royal Museum of Fine Arts in Antwerp (2015). She lives and works in Poznan.
Strength card traditionally depicts a woman straddling a lion, accompanied by the infinity sign. It is charged with healing energy and the lesson that we can learn about our dark instincts, the dark corners of our soul, and turn them into power. It enhances the positive transformation of traumas, fears, and complexes. Infinity symbolizes the journey inward and a lifelong journey of self-development, but also multigenerational traumas that we can only heal during our conscious existence. It motivates us to step into a sense of our own power, but also indicates a great need for compassion towards ourselves and others, as the path it suggests is not an easy one. Our version of the card is threefold strong and feminine; the lion has turned into a multiplied vagina and merged with the heroine. The symbolism of the drawing refers to the ancient positive meaning, affirming the female womb and pointing to the connection with it and with the cyclical nature of life, as the source of the greatest power.
Ewa Mrozikiewicz (born 1990) - visual artist and art curator. She graduated from art education (specializations: art criticism and promotion and curatorial strategies and culture promotion) at the University of Arts in Poznan (2015). At her home university she teaches subjects related to curating and organizing exhibitions. In 2016 she worked as a curator at the Centre for Contemporary Art at the Old Market in Poznan. She is fascinated by moments of error and failure, editor-in-chef of the author’s magazine Important Art Magazine. She is a co-founder of FWD: Gallery, where she promotes conceptual art and curatorial experiments. Author of the Piękna Katastrofa blog (eng. Beautiful Disaster, www.pieknakatastrofa.pl). She has organized over fifty niche exhibitions, cultural events, meetings, and creative workshops, thanks to which she experienced professional burnout at a young age. Together with Ania Rulecka she created the project Ask Mokosh, a series of exhibitions and meetings with a leitmotif of feminine community and sisterly strength. Her work has been shown at exhibitions: Howling for the Thirtieth of February at a private venue in Poznan (2020), the exhibition of the Winners of the Artistic Scholarships of the City of Poznan (2018), the Art Gallery Rozruch in Poznan, during the guerrilla art action We have no Mess/age as part of the Antwerp Art Weekend at the Royal Museum of Fine Arts in Antwerp (2015). She lives and works in Poznan.