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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

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.

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

Sine Loco

Abstract things. Summer Week.

Photography: © Maria Stadnicka, 2023

Pathology

Photograph © Maria Stadnicka August 2023. River. Traces of Life.

Pathology

In early autumn, mornings begin

with the same letter and most things

go on so suddenly, they strike you

as brutal. You forget names and

places where both,

the self and the other, stood

counting insect bites. The ashes of

summer wakefulness, squeezed between

palms pushing against low skies.   

One is taller, one is happier.

The picture resembles

a clearing dome under which you repeat

daily dressing-undressing then

sort items according to necessities:

to set aside,

to bring together, or

in readiness for the big hibernation.

© Maria Stadnicka, 2023.

Where 

....    I tell the distance that
people’s names are 
shorter than rivers… 
threads 
on the world’s spine 
gliding
to the edge of an abyss 
where all their deeds fall
glass-clear
to no ending
except themselves.


© Maria Stadnicka MMXXIII

The exhibition TU:PLEI for one more day / 25 July

  • © Antonia Glücksman, 2021
  • © Antonia Glücksman, 2021
  • © Antonia Glücksman, 2021
  • © Zoé Heath, 2021
  • The Loft Space Gallery at Stroud Brewery. Photo: © Antonia Glücksman 2021 Artwork: Zoé Heath, 2021
  • © Antonia Glücksman ‘As You Like It’, 2021
  • © Antonia Glücksman, 2021
  • The Loft Space Gallery at Stroud Brewery. Photo: © Antonia Glücksman 2021
  • The Loft Space Gallery at Stroud Brewery. Photo: © Antonia Glücksman 2021 Artwork: © Andrew Morrison, 2021
  • The Loft Space Gallery at Stroud Brewery. Photo: © Antonia Glücksman 2021 Artwork: © CF Sherrat, 2021 and John Stadnicki
  • The Loft Space Gallery at Stroud Brewery. Photo: © Antonia Glücksman 2021
  • The Loft Space Gallery at Stroud Brewery. Photo: © Antonia Glücksman 2021 Artwork: © Zoé Heath, 2021
  • The Loft Space Gallery at Stroud Brewery. Photo: © Antonia Glücksman 2021 Our well-loved visitor, Forest, trying to keep cool at lunchtime.
  • © Andrew Morrison, 2021
  • © Maria Stadnicka, ‘Buried Gods Metal Prophets’, published by Guillemot Press, 2021
  • © Hannah Mathison, 2021
  • The Loft Space Gallery at Stroud Brewery. Photo: © Antonia Glücksman 2021 Artwork: © Andrew Morrison, 2021
  • The Loft Space Gallery at Stroud Brewery. Photo: © Antonia Glücksman 2021

Tree Chopping

Photography: © MStadnicka, MMXIV ‘Late O’

(after Rainer Maria Rilke)


River bank meadows have
all the time in the world.


Their pulse slows to a teardrop 
before any changes in weather. 


It turns to cement, turns to
salt mixed with root clumps,


for winter seeps through layers
of sunset under glass ceiling.


Our tree chopping season grows 
heavy with chalk, a burial site for


the things we once loved that
have fallen and broken in to pieces. 



© Maria Stadnicka, June 2021, Stroud.