Courtesy of the artist and Phillida Reid, London

 

JOANNA PIOTROWSKA supporting DIOZ

Animal Handling Gloves, 2019

silver gelatin handprint

30 x 24 cm (11.8 x 9.4 in.)

7 of 7 + 3 AP

€4,300 (including frame)

*Work not yet produced. To be framed to the artist’s specification in London.

Courtesy of the artist

ARTIST

Joanna Piotrowska 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. 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.

Piotrowska was born in 1985 in Warsaw, Poland and lives and works in London. Piotrowska was included in the 2022 Venice Biennale and the 16th Lyon Biennale, 2022. Solo exhibitions include Le Bal, Paris, France; Zacheta National Gallery of Art, Poland; Kunsthalle Basel, Switzerland; Tate Britain, London; Yorkshire Sculpture International, Leeds Art Gallery, UK.

CHARITY

Dioz provides shelter, food, veterinary care and rehabilitation to animals suffering at the hands of human cruelty. They facilitate adoptions for animals that have been hurt, are unwell or are unwanted. They also have 7 hectares of farmland where they can care for animals they are unable to re-home.