AGATA ZBYLUT MOMMY

Opening: 14.09.2018, opening hour: 18.00

Open until: 12.10.2018, opening hours: MON-SAT 12.00-18.00

MOMMY [for sjp.pl/pańcia]:
1. affectionately: the owner of a pet (especially a dog), his mistress;
2. colloquially: stupid and pretentious woman

I started to take pictures very early, still in college. My selfportraits consisted of my master’s degree, my doctoral and habilitation thesis. I photographed myself trying on a large wedding dress by 10 sizes, when it was time for a wedding, and a few years later I prepared a series of photos based on wedding documentation borrowed from friends, but with me in the main role – the bridegroom trying this time. In 2004, I made a series of photos of myself crying. I chose the square format as if sensing the sad Instagram girls who would fill the Internet a dozen or so years later. Last year I prepared a series of photos of myself exercising on the kitchen table of my Warsaw microscopic kitchen. I can not cook so I exercise. I could name it for a long time, because there were a lot of these images. Each time they somehow confronted me with reality.

Today I am a woman 40+. I am examining the body more thoroughly, I am interested in clinics and wonderful injections. This is also the time when I started to doubt. On the one hand, I am still anxious, uncertain – also to my own decisions, on the other hand, in so many situations I’ve already been to know how things will go. The only thing that changes is me. That’s why I look at myself again.

I came up with the idea of preparing the title cycle of photography after the ineffective removal of permanent make-up, when in the future I had a few days alone at home. The situation was quite pathetic, and I wanted to keep tenderness and a sense of dignity in these pictures. I did not try to criminalize them, I just get used to them. What happens when I show what I wanted to hide?

Agata Zbylut

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