Artwork title : The Museum of Conceived Soldiers / Spedale degli Innocenti

Izabela Maciejewska in cooperation with Piotr Michnikowski, 2019/2021

Material: Ceramics, 2019

The Museum of Conceived Soldiers is a critical commentary on the destructive, but still functioning, patriarchal, national-military cultural patterns, carrying, among others, religious context. As well as physical and mental violence against women - in addition to the cult of the unborn. In a universal sense, the work carries a perverse message about the disrespect for man, treated from conception as "cannon fodder", where the model of struggle and death for the homeland is promoted as moral and attractive. In this context, the protection of the conceived life (such a vivid topic in Polish national discourse) takes on a powerful irony dimension. The work is intended to force a deeper reflection on life in general, also against the background of the phenomena taking place in Polish society.

The form of work is inspired by the ceramics of Andrea della Robia (Spedale degli Innocenti).