In the painting compositions Exhibition 1 and Exhibition 2, meanwhile, the artist in symbolic mode attempts to piece back together the fragments of a broken sculpture made by her aunt, the sculptor Hanna Żuławska, on the basis of preserved photographs of her exhibitions. The nostalgic activity of putting in order old family photographs becomes for the painter an inspiration for creating a collage that resembles a genealogical tree. Composed of photographs only of women, the collage forms a declaration of feminism surprising in the light of the artist’s earlier comments on this topic.

Thus, works by Agata Bogacka based on a monochromatic colour-scheme and a diversity of textures are set in composition with selected paintings from the last three years (for example, from the series Mirroring from 2008 or Tatras from 2009) demonstrate both a new sphere of thematic interests and an evolution in the artist’s creative stance – we can observe a clear transition from the “here and now” to history understood in broad terms, and also a totally different stylistic approach from that used hitherto. Unchanged remains the artist’s interest in modes of recording reality and registering one’s emotional states, of the type we find in diaries or notebooks.

The artist is realising this project under the Minister of Culture and National Heritage of the Republic of Poland scholarship.