You and I In Flux (2006-2007) explores transnational belonging and a notion of home in relation to a wider contemporary search for a sense of self through history and reinvention. The portraits are rooted in in-depth interviews with first generation international migrants living in London in locations around London chosen as spaces symbolic of their in-betweenness and containment.
The photographs and their titles are the only clues of who the people are. The work attempts to make visible the process of guessing and assum...
I Used To Skate On Frozen Lakes (2008) is a series of landscapes linking autobiographical and collective memory. The photographs are sequenced from a back catalogue of work, each dedicated to one of t...
Conversations (2008) installation marks a border between present and past, between the individual and the collective. Small, red, passport sized monographs are arranged on a long, narrow plinth amongs...
Ania Dabrowska
UNITED KINGDOM
My practice is driven by responses to the idea of identity in the current sociological, political, and economic climate. I explore my subject matter through landscapes, portraits, and still lives deploying traditions of documentary and staged photography, narrative construction, and myth making. I move across different avenues of enquiry with the situationist sentiment, allowing my work to wander across critical territories and aesthetic choices to attempt disruption of fixed categories and to draw attention to serendipitous possibilities in the process of narrative construction. I appropriate... [Read More]
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