Alexandra Wolkowicz, ‘Time-Windows: Squaring up to the Past’
The series of photographs presented here was taken in November 2009, at a time when the artist’s father was moving out of his flat in Weilbergstraße 1, where she had grown up. Whilst helping him pack, Wolkowicz looked again at old photographs. She attempted to map the past onto the present, thus becoming both the viewer and the viewed.
Alexandra Wolkowicz is a Polish-German artist and photographer currently resident in Liverpool, UK.
Her work explores issues of our relationship with the world and how we share it with each other and with other living things. Essentially tactile and documentary, her work springs from her experience with photography, performance, theatre and the creation of unique representations of places, things and histories which move her.' She has extensive experience in undertaking photographic commissions and being involved in art projects in the UK and abroad. Her working practice is often collaborative and multidisciplinary, using different media which are appropriate to the aesthetics and content of a particular piece. She was artist-in-residence at Elsewhere Artist Collaborative in Greensboro, North Carolina, and at the Warsaw School of Photography in Poland. In 2009 she travelled to NYC to work on 'Birds' Ear View', a collaborative project about bird and building collisions.
http://www.studiowolkowicz.com
