All Projects

2013

Bedded on Roses / Pościelona na różach

Room installation: Photomontage on paper and polyester film, 12 banners, height 300 cm, varying widths from 43 to 91 cm

Bedded on Roses / Pościelona na różach — Image 1

German-Polish national and family memory. "What space is to the art of memory, time is to the culture of remembrance. Perhaps one may go a step further: as the art of memory belongs to learning, so the culture of remembrance belongs to planning and hoping, i.e., to the formation of social horizons of meaning and time." (Jan Assmann, Cultural Memory)

Bedded on Roses / Pościelona na różach — Image 3

Selected historical photographs of German-Polish family and national history reveal the different layers of times of bloom and thorns into which I was born.

Bedded on Roses / Pościelona na różach — Image 5

I connect chapters from my own history and that broader history on double-sided printed banners, whose arrangement was inspired by Stonehenge.