For Aneta Grzeszykow­ska, the body serves as both a sculp­tural material and a medium of com­munication. The artist, who under­went gym­nastics training during her school years, also uses her own body as a tool, creating filmic choreographies and political posters with it. Ist­nienie emer­ged in the wake of the Women’s Strike protests, but it also func­tions as a form of existen­tial training, promp­ting reflec­tion on the inseparability of lan­guage, con­sciousness, and its bodily vessel.