Table Top

I think that right now, self-observation and self-representation is an important tool for women, queer, identifying and other non-cis gendered people to be able to reject the oppressive, anti-democratic trends in global politics. As a queer Polish/Jewish artist, the matters of ownership of ones body and struggling for secularity are at the forefront of my thoughts, because the current political agenda of my home country is life-threatening.

Table Top is an ongoing, experimental project that was born out of a need for daily practice which in turn anchors in the observation of the daily routines: necessities, affects, obsessions, ticks and vices. All photograms and photographs were developed on my kitchen table without the use of an enlarger.

This is a slow study of post-photographic urges towards methodic organisation of one’s table like one would a desktop as well as turning the attention to the rhythm of distractions - recording them by almost literally burning them into the paper.

An autotheoretical project about what’s left lying around has to be about boundaries with oneself. In other words self-control which brings us back to a table as mind’s landscape. In one of my pictures I reference recognising anger and differentiating it from assertiveness.

A lot of the visual work that I do sparks from my writing practice, journaling and script writing.