Joanna Piotrowska Explained

Joanna Piotrowska
Birth Place:Warsaw, Poland
Nationality:Polish
Field:Photography

Joanna Piotrowska (born 1985) is a Polish artist based in London.[1] She examines the human condition through performative acts and the construction of multiple ‘social landscapes’ using photography, performance and film. 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).[7] She was also included in the 59th Venice Biennale (2022), The 16th Lyon Biennale (2022)[8] and the 10th Berlin Biennale (2018).[9]

Education

Piotrowska earned an MFA from the Royal College of Art, London, in 2013.[10]

Career

Piotrowska's 2014 series "FROWST" is a series of staged family portraits. The photos were published in a book by the same name, which won the First Book Award in 2014.[11]

After winning one of the three Jerwood/Photoworks Awards in 2015,[12] Piotrowska focused on photographing teenage girls in self-defense poses. She shot the series in Poland, finding subjects through friends and casting agencies that worked with aspiring actresses.[13]

In 2016, she began her "Frantic" series, in which she asked adults to construct homemade forts from their personal belongings. She traveled to Lisbon and Rio de Janeiro, photographing her subjects in their homes.[14]

Exhibitions

Publications

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Southard Reid. frieze. 9 April 2018.
  2. Web site: Phillida . Reid . Joanna Piotrowksa CV, Phillida Reid .
  3. Web site: 2022-04-04 . Biennale Arte 2022 Joanna Piotrowska . 2023-02-24 . La Biennale di Venezia . en.
  4. Web site: 2023-02-03 . Joanna Piotrowska – Entre nous . 2023-02-24 . LE BAL . en.
  5. Web site: Tate . Joanna Piotrowska Tate Britain . 2023-02-24 . Tate . en-GB.
  6. Web site: Stable Vices • Kunsthalle Basel . 2023-02-24 . Kunsthalle Basel . en-US.
  7. Web site: Being: New Photography 2018 MoMA . 2023-02-24 . The Museum of Modern Art . en.
  8. Web site: Joanna Piotrowska . 2023-02-24 . Biennale de Lyon . en.
  9. Web site: Joanna Piotrowska . 2023-02-24 . bb10.berlinbiennale.de . en.
  10. Web site: Woodward . Daisy . The Talented Photographer Using Gesture to Empower Women . 9 April 2018 . AnOther.
  11. Web site: Winner: FROWST by Joanna Piotrowska. First Book Award. 9 April 2018.
  12. Web site: Winners of the Jerwood/Photoworks Awards 2015 announced. Photoworks. 9 April 2018.
  13. Web site: Black and White Photos That Show the Disturbing Side of Being a Teenage Girl. Fedorova. Anastasiia. Broadly. 9 April 2018.
  14. Web site: 15 Artists to Watch at SP-Arte. Lesser. Casey. Artsy. 9 April 2018.
  15. Web site: Joanna Piotrowska: FROWST. 2021-08-02. Zachęta Narodowa Galeria Sztuki. en.
  16. Web site: Our Red Sky .
  17. Web site: Joanna Piotrowska . 2023-02-24 . kestnergesellschaft.de . en.

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