The Witch’s Awakening

One realizes she is a witch when she says something she shouldn’t have said. One realizes it when her words seep like poisonous saliva into the ears of those who control themedia and the official narratives. When the saliva dries on their necks and coils around them like a snake.

One realizes she is a witch also when she knows things she shouldn’t know... like the future. They may call it multiverse theory, but there is a specific moment when one says, “Leave him alone, hedoesn’t have much time left,” and sooner than later, it happens.

One realizes she is a witch because her presence unsettles in the streets—the color of her skin, the way she dresses—what they call provocative when everything provokes them. 

One realizes it. And then, she chooses it. She acknowledges the gift she never asked for, but that settled in the way the world reads her: Malinche, wild-haired, brown-skinned, short, crippled, wrinkled, trans, dry, barren, bald, and woman, and woman, and woman. 

 

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Irasema Fernández (Mexico, 1990) is a writer and intermedial artist.

Her practice unfolds at the intersection of writing and visual arts, exploring the relationship between word and object. Through her work, she examines the tensions between the personal and the collective, the intimate and the public, the inner and the outer. She is also the founder of Olla Express, an independent publishing house. 

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Aus der Reihe Hexengeschichten initiert von Judith Kisner anlässlich der Ausstellung •// ✿ //• Anna Bochkova und Judith Kisner (20. März 2025 – 6. April 2025) im Kunstverein GastGarten.