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  • Projects
    •  
    • Humanature
    • Twelve Dying Palm Trees
    • Celebration
    • Moments I Never Showed
    • Behind
    • Tomato Soup
    • Waiting Dogs
    • What If We Can See More
    • I have nothing from Lviv
    •  
  • About
    •  
    • Bio
    • Awards
    • Exhibitions
    • Artist Statement
    • Publications
    • Studio Visit
    •  
  • Visit Commissions
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During the Second World War, my grandma’s family was forced to resettle from Lviv to Silesia. She was 5 years old when they got on the train and left their home. They didn’t take any belongings and they were moving to unknown. For the past 40 years, my grandma was busy with paperwork and meeting lawyers. She was claiming to recover the property of her family house in Ukraine. This June when she received a rejection. The project idea was to travel to Ukraine and document the homecoming on photographs. By examining my personal relation to the issue of longing, home, identity, and migration I aim to challenge today’s notions of those topics. I believe that by following my grandmother’s steps in connection with a place that once was her home I can find some common grounds in the issues that we face in today’s world. There were around 100,000 Poles who were moved away from their homes in Lviv. I’m interested in how the role of migration in the previous generations can shape and put light on the issues we are facing now, especially in times when the negative stance towards mass migrations can be observed. I would aim to avoid the typical, documentary narrative that portrays the history of the post-war generation and rather propose the artistic and emotional response to the subject. 2018