Mama

The photographic series Mama, by Aneta Grzeszykowska, can be read as a reflection on the role that artistic representation plays in the way we define our subjectivity throughout our lives. In the photographs, a girl plays with a human figure as she would with her mother, but as the series progresses, we discover that the figure is actually a mannequin, a wax sculpture. Through these deeply hypnotic photographs, we are introduced as visitors to the reflection on how the image shapes our reality, our desire and our subjectivity, which tries to connect both.

Aneta Grzeszykowska

Aneta Grzeszykowska lives and works in Warsaw. She recently participated in exhibitions at La Biennale di Venezia and at the Francisco Carolinum in Linz, and her works are part of the collections of museums such as the Guggenheim in New York, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Centre Pompidou in Paris and the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw. With her political and critical approach to making art, throughout her career she has developed a multiform and radical style of self-portraiture, literally inserting herself into the history of feminist art, slipping her own image into works by artists such as Ana Mendieta, Francesca Woodman and Theresa Hak Kyung Cha.

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