Responding to present day
societal urgencies, Alara's site - specific installation and public engagement project SMILE
addresses the spectre of mental illness, a
taboo topic.
Katarzyna Kozyra is feminist artist, widely known by her controversial installations Animal Pyramide, Blood relationship (1995), Olympia (1996), Bath House (1997 - 1999) in which she
addresses taboo themes such as industry of animal killing, sexuality of the woman body affected by cancer, topics of intimacy or processes of
societal gender construction and gender - related pop girls star style clichés.