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Rebellion is a rejection of standards and values combined with an attempt to replace them with new ones. Rebellion can be manifested in destruction of furs by defenders of animal rights as, in their opinion, they are luxury goods paid for by animal suffering. The project speaks of questioning the authenticity of rebellion in the today’s world. For an activist, a fur covered in paint stops being a target since, as a “damaged” one, it exhausts the possibilities to manifest views. The presentation of the author’s own collection of “damaged-decorated” furs shows their return to the commercialised world, where you could buy them again and produce new ones. Rebellion or gestures of vandalism prove entangled in the market mechanisms of global capitalism. Noticeable in particular in the world of fashion, they are an attempt to subdue and devalue objection as a dangerous tool. Rebellion exists now only in the form of a product. 

Image strategies created for the purpose of popular culture are saturated with new borrowings from rebel gestures. The actual honest rebellion, according to the artist, is no longer possible as every act of objection will be painlessly absorbed by popular culture. 

Tatiana Pancewicz – born in 1988. A graduate of the Faculty of Painting and New Media, the Academy of Art in Szczecin. Creates videos, photographs and objects the common feature of which is simplicity of the form and significance of the gesture. A holder of a scholarship of the President of Szczecin. Her pieces were shown, among others, at Fotofestiwal International Festival of Photography in Lodz, Short Waves International Film Festival in Poznań, international video festivals in Germany, Greece, Romania, Argentina, and National Museum in Szczecin, EL Gallery, Current Art Zone Gallery, Władysław Hasior Gallery. The winner of the debut section at the TIFF festival. Her output was presented in the programme titled Videogalerie, which was produced for TVP Kultura.