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Hannah Silver

Intimacy, violence and the uncanny: Joanna Piotrowska in Philadelphia

Woman holding hand on lips: photographs from the exhibition ‘Joanna Piotrowska: unseeing eyes, restless bodies’.

‘My work is invested in surrealism insofar as both contain images that seem incongruous,’ says Polish artist and photographer Joanna Piotrowska, as she presents her first solo exhibition in the United States.

‘My newer works, especially my collage pieces, hold together contrasting qualities, such as the hardness of wood and the softness of the body,’ says Piotrowska, whose previous projects include ‘Sub Rosa’, a collaborative exhibition with designers Formafantasma inspired by power dynamics and interrogation-room architecture.

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