Małgorzata Dawidek is a visual artist, writer and art historian. Her artistic and academic interests cover the visual arts, literature and certain medical matters. Dawidek’s practice is focused on the conflict between the condition of the human body and discursive language. It addresses aspects of representations of the ill female body in the history of art and literature, and the expression of experiences of isolation, anxiety, loss and pain. Creating a space for potentiality and positive categories in the field of boundary experiences Małgorzata develops her own concepts of bodygraphy and affective art practice.

In her work, she combines a wide range of media encompassing performance, photographs, video, written drawings, textual objects and installations.

She also collaborates with other artists, writers, academics and institutes.

The theoretical framework of her art aligns with postmodern theories of performative corporeality, and studies on illness narratives, while her primary references are auto/biographical studies.

Małgorzata also researches visual literature and is the author of ‘A Piece of Poetry’ (2012), and ‘A History of Visual Text. Poland, post-1967’ (2012) awarded by the Polish National Culture Centre’s prize for the best PhD dissertation (2010).