Pęknięty Zapis / A Fragmented Record

My art practice merges the political and personal through sculpture and film. It engages with ideologies of post-war European brutalist architecture while responding to my childhood home - an apartment in a public housing block in post-Communist Poland where my grandparents still reside. It explores how socialist ideology manifests in architectural situations and how individuality persists within collective ideology. The sculptural formations act as a physical retelling of a personal narrative, filling in the gaps of collective history.

It is a multidimensional installation combining a range of materials and artistic strategies. Materials include net curtains, dried oranges, a dinner table and chairs, crochet, jesmonite, box-bar steel frame, concrete, insulation, rebar, video, and large-scale screen-prints of archival architectural plans.

The work engages with or references materials from my grandparents’ apartment. The contrast between the domestic and the structural elements highlights the tension between fragility and durability. The work embodies themes of scarcity and hardship. It functions as a reflective medium through which memory, deprivation, architecture and identity, architecture and politics, and the passage of time are explored.