I had 4 grandfathers (sic) and each of them was a photographer, so before I even found out that a visual artist could be a profession, I inherited several kilograms of Soviet photographic equipment.
Then began a period of obsessive discoveries. Hours spent on thrashing out photoshop, while skipping sunday mass as a kid, learning drawing while making portraits of pensioners of my small mountain town and finally getting into the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, which at that time felt like a euphoric abstraction.
The most important knowledge I possessed while studying, was that I want to do art, which is socially engaged. Which speaks openly to reality, questions it and tries to shoot for a solution.
I got the
IT feeling when I did my graduate
project↗︎ with homeless people. Since then it became a direction in my personal practice, channeling my empathy and curiosity into my projects.
In my work, I'm not strictly attached to one medium, so I always select the most appropriate one depending on the needs of the task at hand.