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performance, London, Warsaw

The audience awaiting the artist first saw a projected photo of a pre-war opera diva inside a cage with a lion. An opera overture played from a vinyl record accompanied this. The image gradually disappeared and a fabric-draped cage appeared with Kozyra inside, dressed in a bodysuit making her resemble an obese woman. The bodysuit, made from special foam, was shaped in a mold taken off a real human body. In a review published in Gazeta Wyborcza, Dorota Jarecka wrote, "The artist offered a parody of opera, of an opera diva who squeezes into an elaborate dress to sing the role of a girl. Here the situation was reversed — the singer's abundant body was on the outside, the girl was inside." Completely "concealed" in this costume and conducted by the Maestro, the artist performed the aria of Olympia — the soulless doll from Offenbach's The Tales of Hoffman.