The project is a series of photographs from the period of mourning after the death of my father, which I spent during a student exchange in Macerata, Italy, as well as at times in my family home. My stay in Italy turned out to be a Promised Land for my psyche, because nothing there reminded me of my dad. The Italian photographs are blurred, often with no clear subject. They are an image of my drifting. The photographs from my brief visits home (coming for the funeral, Christmas) are sharply focused, just like my psyche, which switched into a defensive mode during those visits—anything just not to cry.
I chose to work with photographs taken on my phone, because they are simply a record of what I truly wanted to say.
Date:
April 2025
Curator:
dr Małgorzata Markiewicz
