Maria Pinińska Bereś
Kite-Letter
early spring 1976
Fields of Prądnik, Kraków
Maria Pinińska-Bereś:
It was an object in the shape of a flying kite, white, with a sky-blue tail, and a text in pink: “Przepraszam, że byłam, że jestem” [I’m sorry that I was, that I am]. The kite hung on the wall next to pictures from the performance where I sent it, by air, from north to south. I was in Prądnik, in the north of Kraków, and was sending it south. A couple of years later, Stanisław Urbański featured the Kite at the exhibition The Kraków Avant- Garde, which he organized at the Galerie Kautsch in Kassel (then the Federal Republic of Germany). While on tour in Italy, the show went missing. Both the Kite and the documentation were lost.
The Kite never returned from the show. Which is a pity because it was an interesting work. The performance itself was viewed by a handful of people, and later I showed the whole project at the Sculpture of the Year exhibition. The work was a letter meant for a specific person, an object of strong visual appeal.
Photo by Piotr Rybak