Active Poetry

The poetic work of Ewa Partum consisted in scattering single alphabet letters into a nonartistic space be it the open air sea or an underpass This gesture led to the deconstruction of a language whereupon grammatical syntactic and semantic structures were used to determine certain patterns of an artistic statement Her poems were shaped by coincidence which made their language more open and processorientated The confrontation with the elements associated with femininity water wind made it possible to face the patriarchal patterns rooted in the language