I am a Polish illustrator and visual artist. My artistic practice revolves around themes of identity, memory, politics, human rights, and neurodivergence.
My degree project: "I feel like I am from nowhere," questions the significance of a connection to a place, culture, and heritage as it relates to one's identity. My family's nomadic lifestyle has left me with a blurred sense of identity and post-memory defined by gaps and blank spaces, which inspired me to explore my roots through conversations with my mother in an attempt to fill the blanc spaces with a repository of second-hand memories.
In my essay, I aimed to explore blanc spaces of a different kind, to which my personal experiences of cultural invisibility inspired me. Through analysis of past and present discourses on Eastern Europe, I find that its construct, as seen by Western Europe, resembles Orientalist patterns and is built on a hierarchical slope between civilisation and barbarism, as Eastern Europe is built in opposition to Western Europe, as its alter ego, against which Western Europe could define itself. I find this topic especially important amidst the Russian invasion of Ukraine as a significant part of political discourse is still built upon those thinking patterns.
My degree project: "I feel like I am from nowhere," questions the significance of a connection to a place, culture, and heritage as it relates to one's identity. My family's nomadic lifestyle has left me with a blurred sense of identity and post-memory defined by gaps and blank spaces, which inspired me to explore my roots through conversations with my mother in an attempt to fill the blanc spaces with a repository of second-hand memories.
In my essay, I aimed to explore blanc spaces of a different kind, to which my personal experiences of cultural invisibility inspired me. Through analysis of past and present discourses on Eastern Europe, I find that its construct, as seen by Western Europe, resembles Orientalist patterns and is built on a hierarchical slope between civilisation and barbarism, as Eastern Europe is built in opposition to Western Europe, as its alter ego, against which Western Europe could define itself. I find this topic especially important amidst the Russian invasion of Ukraine as a significant part of political discourse is still built upon those thinking patterns.
