Dimensions: 62 x 80 cm (sheet)
signed, dated, inscribed, and numbered in pencil at the bottom: “Self-Portrait from Memory” 1/1 K. Piotrowska 84
ed. 1/1
Condition
Work mounted
Biography
From 1966 to 1972, she studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków in the Department of Interior Design. From 1972, she studied for three years at the State Higher School of Fine Arts in Poznań at the Department of Graphic Arts, and from 1985 to 1990 she studied at Grafik Skolan Forum in Malmö, Sweden. In her art, she combines the media of printmaking, photography, and painting. She is also the creator of numerous installations and video works. The artist is known as a master of moving, stylized portraits, which she subjects to various transformations. In her work, she explores issues of memory, disintegration, and disappearance, as well as her own Polish-Jewish identity.
