A Letter to my Love
Nomadic Letter Exhibition
hArts lane Project Space UK 2020
The Genderhouse Festival DK 2021
A Letter to my love is a delicate examination of saying the things we wanted to say, but could not, and give room for processing grief, loss, and healing. Members of the public are invited to write a letter to someone who they have lost in their life and express all the things they might have wanted to say but never had the chance to. New submitted letters feed into the exhibition each time. The letter writing project is reaching out especially to those who have experienced loss during the time of the pandemic and more broadly who have lost people in their lives without the opportunity to have said goodbye.
This project begun during covid-lockdown 2019. Dagmara posted 1000 letters in her local area in New Cross Gate, London with invitations to participate in a letter-writing project and an exhibition at hArts lane Gallery involving all the letters while she was an artist in residence at hARTslane Gallery for a month. Part of the residency was performing a letter call-out for a delicate invitation to write a letter to a loved one, who you have lost in your life and expresses the things you might have wanted to say but were not able to say. It can be a long letter or a short letter and is open to anyone of all ages.Written letters were posted, collected, and displayed as Dagmara's final day of residency, and the exhibition was later repeated after the 2nd lockdown hARTslane Gallery and as part of The Genderhouse Festival in 2021.
