Ania Bąk “Belly- talker” exhibition
eastcontemporary via Giuseppe Pecchio 3,, MilanEngastrimythos (ἐγγαστρίμυθος, lit. “belly-talker”), a witchlike descendant of the ancient Sibyls or prophetesses. Engastrimythoi, often male, were ventriloquists who disguised their voices and made mantic utterances, as if a deity or demon were acting within and speaking through them. (The Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium) Anna Bąk's artistic practice is a constant movement from inside to outside […]