
Untitled (2020)
Newspaper
Delivered free of charge with velofood orders from participating restaurants: Restaurant Freigeist, Humuhumu Poke Bar, Pad Thai, Dreizehn by Gauster, Die Goldene Banane, Café Greenhouse, Mangolds Restaurant & Café, PARKS-Art, PARKS Bio Fairtrade Coffee & Shop
Credits
With images by Joanna Piotrowska and an essay by Dorota Masłowska
Graphic design: Ivian Kan
Translations: Maša Dabić (Bosnian), Olaf Kühl (German), Benjamin Paloff (English), Sevil Çelik Tsonev (Turkish)
Commissioned and produced by steirischer herbst ’20
With the kind support of Polish Institute Vienna
Distribution partner: velofood
Joanna Piotrowska’s artwork takes the form of a newspaper delivered directly to people’s homes with their takeaway meals. Her photographs depict the all-too-familiar loneliness of confinement at home. Their subjects are lonely people, in conflict with their own bodies when left to their own devices. Empty zoo cages without animals comment on incarceration, while cushion forts provide shelter from anonymous, omnipresent violence. The photos are accompanied by a new essay by the prominent author Dorota Masłowska, written especially for this project, about how children (and adults) can deal with isolation and boredom at home.
Bio
Joanna Piotrowska (1985, Warsaw, Poland) is a photographer who works mainly in black and white. Her predominantly staged photographs use domestic and familiar everyday situations to explore themes such as history, memory and repetition, and the tensions between individual and collective dynamics. She lives in Warsaw.
Credits
With images by Joanna Piotrowska and an essay by Dorota Masłowska
Graphic design: Ivian Kan
Translations: Maša Dabić (Bosnian), Olaf Kühl (German), Benjamin Paloff (English), Sevil Çelik Tsonev (Turkish)
Commissioned and produced by steirischer herbst ’20
With the kind support of Polish Institute Vienna
Distribution partner: velofood