Endo Violence

From 18 March to 31 May 2023 the gallery showed “Endo Violence”, a solo exhibition by the artist and researcher Dr Alicja Pawluczuk, who works under the name HYSTERA. It was curated by Helen Sange, who had invited her in 2022 to exhibit in the newly opened gallery.

For this exhibition Pawluczuk used the term “Endo Violence” in public for the first time. It describes how people with endometriosis are systematically mistreated by society, research and the healthcare system – for example when their pain is dismissed as “hysterical” or “exaggerated”. Today the term gives its name to a funded research project at the University of Leeds.

Alicja Pawluczuk was born in Poland, earned her doctorate in digital culture in Scotland and was living in Berlin at the time of the exhibition; today she lives in the United Kingdom and works as a Research Fellow in Leeds. Her work has also been shown in Bordeaux, Leipzig, Athens and again in Berlin, among other places. More at hystera.art.