The SAR-CoV-2 pandemic is responsible for more than 3 million deaths worldwide. Its effects are long-term; it is difficult to know exactly how long we will be dealing with them. No one fully knows or can predict this. It was hard to predict from the beginning what the post-pandemic landscape of the globe would be, whether we would recover quickly. The most important thing was the reflexes of positive behaviour. Help, solidarity, a desire to provide relief to those most affected and heartbroken. Many did not know how to behave, how to deal with this sudden situation. After a few months of slowing down, we longed for the times before the pandemic, it seemed to us a ‘lost good’. We missed the most important things: direct contact with loved ones or other people, a direct handshake or looking another person in the eye with love. For the things that cannot be bought, the things that testify to the quality of life. Lockdown, made us realise how we are a society in need of social connections.
An intermedia exhibition using fine analogue and digital photographic techniques, the ‘Renewal’ project presents reflections on the encounter of people from a wide spectrum of society with SAR-CoV-2. What has changed in their ‘Inner Landscape’, in their lives , in their perception of the world, what has ended? and what has begun? Using the medium of image and word, I reach into these intimate spaces of experience to release them.
Zuzanna Czerniejewska-Stube
and Dawid Stube with his son.
We experienced covid a year ago. I think we went through it quite mildly, although we were severely fatigued for over a month and there was bronchitis. After dinner we went to sleep like babies.
What was the hardest part?
Thinking about the fact that Susie was pregnant and there was virtually no research on what effect all this would have on the baby.
Ultimately, our son was born healthy, but hypotrophic.
Doctors said that due to covid the placenta was calcified as if Zuzia smoked a pack of cigarettes a day.
Today, we hardly feel any long-term side effects of covid anymore….
Today, despite the passage of time, reflection comes. We try to realize what mental changes have occurred in ourselves by the pandemic. How do we see ourselves?, what do we pay attention to?, what is most important to us now? We look hopefully to the future, being
here and now…
