Ela Kotkowska

@aileverte.bsky.social

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Reader, translator, editor, art lover.

Transcript of interview with Toni Morrison in Pieces That I Am (streaming on Netflix)
Mayra Montero, Dancing to “Almendra”, translated by Edith Grossman, paperback, 2008
Magda Szabo, Staroswiecka historia [An Old-fashioned Story], PWN 1989 and Olga Ravn, The Wax Child, New Directions, 2025. Similar cover aesthetic—plain glossy black dust jackets with a simple image on the cover
Books: Michèle Audin, La Maison Hantée & Laurent Mauvignier, La Maison Vide. Éditions Minuit 2025.
RACHID KORAÏCHI (Algeria, 1947), ABDELKADER BOUMALA (Algeria, 1952), and MOHAMMED DIB (Algeria, 1920 – France, 2003) Al tifl jazz wal harb (“The Jazz Child and the War”), 1997 FROM: Portfolio containing 28 lithographs and 28 pages of calligraphed text, on Rives paper Institut du Monde Arabe, Paris
Putin toilet paper on display at an artist’s studio
Louise Bourgeois, The View from the Bottom of the Well, 1996 (Portfolio with nine acquaints and dry point etchings)
Convicted terrorist and current Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich. From: The Bibi Files, documentary film by Alexis Bloom
Literary Review of Canada, June 2025 cover. Libraries on wheels illustration
Hackesche Höfe, 2024
Stendhal, Le Rouge et le noir, Gallimard folio, p.219
Joseph Beuys Unschlitt/Tallow, 1977 Hamburger Bahnhof art museum photo: April 2025
Can you plant a garden to stop a war? It depends how you think about time. It depends what you think a seed does, if it's tossed into fertile soil. But it seems to me that whatever else you do, it's worth tending to paradise, however you define it and wherever it arises.
Henri Vidal, Caïn venant de tuer Abel, marbre 1896. Tuilleries.
An official White House post from X showing innocent people getting shackled and the comment quoting (and distorting) the line from "Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye," a 1969 song by Paul Leka, Gary DeCarlo and Dale Frashuer that meant to send quite an opposite message.
Niki de Saint Phalle, Nana noire 1955, now at Bourse de Commerce, Paris
Sunset reflected in buildings rue de Rennes
Aliyeh Ataei, La Frontière des oubliés, Gallimard 2023 [2021]
Max Ernst 1891, Brühl, (Allemagne) - 1976, Paris (France) Un Tissu de mensonges, 1959
Victor Brauner L'Expérience malheureuse, 1951 Huile sur toile Centre Pompidou
Francis Picabia, Composition, 1947
“BOOKS AID DEMOCRACY”. Poster, 1940s
Jacques Roubaud, Tridents (NOUS, 2019), frag. 454, p. 787
Le magasin de Ben, 1958-1973, Centre Pompidou
by Simon Tisdall for the Guardian
The Portable Charles W. Chesnutt
Eyal Weizman, Erasure: Conflict Shoreline, Steidl, 2014, p. 29
Toni Morrison, The Source of Self-Regard, 2019
Tyehimba Jess, Olio, Wave Books 2016
Departure from the Austerlitz train station in Paris for the Loiret transit camp, May 14, 1941. ©Mémorial de la Shoah