Joanna Piotrowska

Family archives, self-defence manuals and psychotherapeutic methods are used as reference points as Piotrowska explores the complex roles which play out in everyday performance.

[2] Her psychologically charged photographs probe human behaviour and the dynamics of familial relations, exploring intimacy, violence, control, and self-protection.

The artist reveals moments of care as well as hierarchies of power, anxieties, and imposed conventions that play out in the domestic sphere.

[3] Her work has been exhibited at Le BAL, Paris (2023),[4] Tate Britain (2019),[5] Kunsthalle Basel (2019)[6] and MoMA, New York (2018).

She shot the series in Poland, finding subjects through friends and casting agencies that worked with aspiring actresses.