Joanna Piotrowska

Joanna Piotrowska (born 1985) is a Polish artist based in London. She 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.

Her work has been exhibited at Le BAL, Paris (2023), Tate Britain (2019), Kunsthalle Basel (2019) and MoMA, New York (2018). She was also included in the 59th Venice Biennale (2022), The 16th Lyon Biennale (2022) and the 10th Berlin Biennale (2018). Provided by Wikipedia