In collaboration with the musician⭢ Filip Czaja, we create an immersive sound and visual performance to open the exhibition.
This work began with an accumulation of images. Throughout my year in Poland, I photographed places, people, objects and moments without always knowing what I was looking for or what I wanted to keep. Later, I brought these images through a process of digital pixelation, allowing the details to disappear and the colours to remain. From this process, certain tones returned again and again. Together, they slowly formed a palette: a colour memory of a year. I painted these colours onto a bedsheet given to me by a friend, an object that had become part of my own comfort. The fabric carries something intimate, almost domestic. It is not a neutral canvas. There is no image to recognise here. Instead, the painting gathers traces of time, space, emotions and memories that can no longer be separated from one another.
These images were made with sunlight, time and chance. During the summer, I returned to the cyanotype process, using the chemical reaction between light and the photosensitive emulsion as a way to revisit my time in Kraków. Each impression was made with someone who crossed my path during my stay or with important and symbolic objects. The process is partly unpredictable: things appear, disappear, overlap and change. Like memories, the final image cannot be completely controlled. Each cyanotype becomes a small record of a person, an encounter or a moment.
During a trip to Riga (Latvia) I gathered leftover pieces of wallpaper and discarded stickers that naturally came together into intriguing forms. Created spontaneously from whatever was available in the moment, this piece reflects the art of making with what we find around us. By assembling these remnants, the work gives new life to forgotten materials, telling fresh stories through the objects left behind by others.
This is a painting made on found wallpaper, a material that carries the feeling of a home. The memory painted comes from a Christmas meal in Latvia, far from the place I usually associate with Christmas. The scene becomes slightly distorted, reflecting the experience of celebrating a familiar tradition in an unfamiliar place. Christmas can be a meal, a gathering, a gift, a gesture of hospitality. It can also change from one country to another, shaped by different people, customs and ways of being together. Between the wallpaper that evokes a home and the distorted image of the celebration, the work explores what it means to make a home, share a tradition and celebrate together when you are away from your own.
This series of prints brings 10 online pages from my website into the physical world. I learned to code this website by myself, through experimentation, trial and error. I enjoy this kind of DIY process, building things from what I know, figuring out what I don’t, and turning simple tools into something personal. The website became a space where I could mix writing, images, links, memories and fragments of my year in Kraków. I spent time arranging and rearranging these pieces on a blank digital page, almost like making a collage. It is public and accessible to anyone, yet remains a small, personal corner of the internet. For me, the interesting part is also what happens when this digital space becomes physical. By printing these pages, the website becomes another medium. Something made to exist on a screen can be held, displayed and looked at differently, turning a digital archive into a series of prints.
These collages begin with photographs taken during my travels, transformed into high-contrast black and white images. The grey buildings, snow and long winter nights recall the atmosphere of Poland, where movement often happened under muted skies. Over these images, I used the “Your Timeline” feature of Google Maps to trace the journeys I made throughout the year. Trains, buses, walks, rides and repeated routes become lines and shapes, stripped of their original scale. The journeys are not only about leaving and arriving somewhere else, but also about repetition: the same routes taken again, familiar paths returning, a routine in Krakow. The blue comes from the original color in Google Maps.
As someone deeply attentive to Kraków's rich artistic and social scene, I collected flyers and posters from countess events, workshops, and cultural gatherings throughout the year. Assembling these prints into a single artwork creates a personal map of my time here, tracing both the events I attended and those I missed. It captures the vibrant energy of a former European Capital of Culture alongside my own desire to experience life fully, exploring what we truly carry with us from a city's cultural rhythm.
Figures multiply, bodies overlap, and several versions of myself occupy the same space. The images almost seem to chase one another, creating a kind of visual echo. The intense, saturated colours and flashes connect with the visual world I have developed through my practice, but also with the energy of my time as a volunteer, constantly moving between places, activities, encounters and roles, perhaps too much?
After moving into a new place, the plants around me became part of my everyday life. They seemed to inhabit the building just as I did. With the move came a certain calm. I began to notice small changes that I might not have seen before. I started documenting, patiently, the growth of a climbing ivy. Watching it grow became a quiet way of watching time pass. Its progression echoed my own, slowly settling into a new place, a new rhythm and a new stage of my life.
This artwork brings together drawing of posters from all the events I attended this year. Poster design has always been a major interest. The piece is split into two distinct sections. One side focuses on the raw energy of techno nights. The other side highlights cultural and artistic events. Every visual tells a real story about shared moments with people. This notebook was created during our first integration week in a workshop. From this moment, I’ve decided to have this long term project of documentation and that is how I filled it.