(starting from the fourth)

Thirty and One Nights (starting from the fourth) a book of unique screenprints, 42 x 42cm

Thirty and One Nights (starting from the fourth) is a series of unique screen-prints representing images of reclining legs, shown in different positions. The intention was to show the double world of life and death, the world at the border of consciousness and unconsciousness. In the same way as dreams, bed hallucinations and death blur the border between consciousness and unconsciousness, so it is difficult to perceive the fine line between life and death. In this double world, the figures can suggest life as well as death, love and desire as well as sacrifice or survival. They become physical symbols showing the condition of being.

In my work I want to be not only the author but also the subject and object, therefore the process of photographing myself plays an important part in it allowing me to explore the experiences of my own body. The process itself has an entrancing aspect in a ‘Alice Through the Looking Glass’ sense – it is Me, but at the same time it is not Me. We identify ourselves through photographs. We show our pictures, pictures of our family. We tend to treat photographs as evidence of truth, but even dozens of photographs do not tell the whole story. The reality is not always what it seems to be.

The project’s outcomes consist of a set of a unique screenprints designed for exhibiting and a book of unique prints bound together using Japanese binding method produced by Book Works, London.

The works were exhibited in the David Hockney Gallery, Royal College of Art, London (solo show) and Zachęta Gallery of Contemporary Art, Warsaw (group show).

Printed catalogue ‘Graficy / Printmakers’ in English and Polish, ISBN Number: ISBN 83-87587-03-6