Maria Stadnicka

RE VENI RE

RE VENI RE is a limited edition artist book written by the poet and sociologist Maria Stadnicka and produced by the book artist Andrew Morrison, and it reflects the migration journey of Romanian diaspora settled in Britain. “Revenire” [trans. from Romanian] means “returning” and it contains texts based on interviews conducted by Maria with Romanian migrants for her PhD research into transgenerational trauma transmission. Each text has the same number of lines and they build a lyrical interpretation of stories enfolded by uprooting. Although each story is different, together they shape the commonality of a diasporic culture that is making its voice heard in the British space.

RE VENI RE is letterpress printed and published by Kerbstone Press, on the occasion of the Enfolded Journeys exhibition. The project Enfolded Journeys is a touring exhibition relating to travel, displacement, geographies and borders, and migration in recent times and in the past as the effects of such movements of peoples, whether compelled or voluntary, may resound through the generations.

RE VENI RE will be displayed in various art galleries across England, Scotland and Italy, starting with the Leeds Central Library (21 March – 5 April, 2025) and ending with Venice in 2026.

© Maria Stadnicka, February 2025

Letters on a String

At the beginning of a new project: ideas, words, paper, ink, string.

© MStadnicka, January 2025

A wish for 2025

A few months ago I had in mind to create a calendar with landscape photographs I’ve taken throughout 2024 but my work schedule made it impossible to see the project come to light. It would be too late to do it now in time for 2025 but here is the selection I had in mind. Feel free to add your own photograph and send it in return instead of a Christmas or a New Year card. Maybe a photograph that represents your 2024 or your hope for 2025.

Have a Happy Winter Season! La Multi Ani!

Maria Stadnicka

  • January, Lower Cam / ©MStadnicka

Timeframes

© Maria Stadnicka, 2024

4 Megahertz. Awake

The first copy of 4 Megahertz. Awake. A limited edition artist book included in the Art, Science and Creativity Art Book Exhibition at the Liverpool Central Library. The book was designed and created with the artist Andrew Morrison and published by the Kerbstone Press.

The exhibition will be open between 3rd September – 30th October 2024.

© Maria Stadnicka, August 2024.

disOrder 

Decide that the earliest memory is 
a feeling. Someone passed it onto us 
by accident. It still matters.

disOrder is a new project in collaboration with Andrew Morrison Books and produced by Kerbstone Press. It is an artist book in a box, and it is coming out at the Bristol Artist’s Book Event (B.A.B.E.) this weekend. The event will take place at the Bower Ashton Gallery, University of the West of England, 29-30 June, 11am – 5pm. The event is free and there will be hundreds of other books to see if you are in the neighbourhood. You can find more information here.

© Maria Stadnicka, June 2024.

Voices of Freedom: Romania at the London Book Fair

Time & Location

13 Mar 2024, 19:30 – 21:00

Conway Library Hall, 25 Red Lion St, London WC1R 4RL, UK

About the event

We continue our journey into the world of literature prompted by Romania’s participation at the London Book Fair 2024 with an event dedicated to the literary world of Central and South-Eastern Europe. The event is organised in partnership with the Bulgarian Cultural Institute in London and brings together editor Susan Curtis of Istros Books; writer, editor and journalist Maria Stadnicka; writer and critic Bogdan Crețu and cultural manager Milena Deleva, President of Elizabeth Kostova Foundation/Open Letter Books. The evening will be hosted by writer, editor and cultural journalist Paula Erizanu.

You can book a place on this link.

Romania’s 14th participation at the London Book Fair (LBF) celebrates generations of astonishing writers, who offer strong, original voices and well-crafted language through their awarded books. 35 years since the Romanian Revolution, we celebrate freedom in all its creative forms, with a focus on Romania’s literary scene.

Join us for a rich programme that unfolds at our stand at Olympia Exhibition Centre as well as at the Romanian Cultural Institute, Barbican Library and Conway Hall. Four packed days of book launches, dialogues and spoken word performances that will to give you a flavour of our effervescent contemporary literature.

Our brilliant guests are writers and academics: Mădălina Căuneac, Liliana Corobca, Hannah Dawson, Paula Erizanu, Suzannah Lipscomb, Cosmin Perța, Florentin Popa, Alina Purcaru, Maria Stadnicka, Matei Vișniec, Elena Vlădăreanu. Authors, journalists and critics Marius Chivu and Bogdan Crețu, editors Eli Bădică, Alex Ciorogar and Susan Curtis; artist Iulian Morar; as well as translator Gabi Reigh, and cultural manager Milena Deleva complete our line-up.

The Romanian participation at the LBF 2024 is organised by the Romanian Cultural Institute’s National Book Centre and the Romanian Cultural Institute in London, with the support of the Romanian Embassy, Conway Hall, Barbican Library, the Romanian Publishers Association and the Ministry of Culture. The project is funded by the Romanian Cultural Institute.

Memøry Høuse / Event Invite

“Memory HouseA’ book and art exhibition at the Lansdown Art Gallery, Stroud, Gloucestershire.

21 – 26 February 2024 open every day 9am – 5pm / Extended open day Wednesday 21st February 9am – 8pm.

We often think about time as being a social concept, anchored in a palpable present, routing between the past and the future but nevertheless a construct that makes sense once we engage, in perpetuity, with our human experiences. In fact, what is infinite and constantly subject to our imagination and our creative processes is the past; the memories stored, processed and shared, that integrate and ground our being.

Memory House is an art collaboration searching to explore the collective aspect of memory that leads to social integration and reveals human commonalities beyond ethnicity, background or political colour. Memory House is a place where different generations and cultures reveal the archetypal aspects of our humanity.

Memory House: book detail/concept and design ©Andrew Morrison. Poetry © Maria Stadnicka

Publisher: Kerbstone Press

© Maria Stadnicka, February 2024

Doxology

© Maria Stadnicka, 2024


prayer for rechargeable batteries

and fastness and coffee mornings

for raffle tickets and crisp stereo sound

for power banks and batch cooking 



prayer for beer-tapas at my local pub 

and for average speed limits 

for goodenoughness at school reunions 

and metastatic anonymity online



prayer for microphones and bespoke

for three-in-one and all other numerals 

for Karen from Home Deliveries

and her quick recovery from sick leave



prayer for perhaps and passwords 

for stopping mid-sentence and for 

everything else that is temporary 

apart from betrayal 



prayer for scissors and for the frontal cortex

and for a long-distance relationship

with my past life

© Maria Stadnicka, February 2024

Memøry Høuse / Event Invite

We often think about time as being a social concept, anchored in a palpable present, routing between the past and the future but nevertheless a construct that makes sense once we engage, in perpetuity, with our human experiences. In fact, what is infinite and constantly subject to our imagination and our creative processes is the past; the memories stored, processed and shared, that integrate and ground our being.

Memory House is an art collaboration searching to explore the collective aspect of memory that leads to social integration and reveals human commonalities beyond ethnicity, background or political colour. Memory House is a place where different generations and cultures reveal the archetypal aspects of our humanity.

Memory House includes new work by the artist Mark Mawer, printing and art book produced by the artist Andrew Morrison and writing by the poet and sociologist Maria Stadnicka whose research is focused on transgenerational transmissions.

Publisher: Kerbstone Press

© Maria Stadnicka, January 2024