Marcela Paniak

Lilac at Forty Four

“Lilac at Forty Four” is a photographic cycle of 20 photographs created in my studio at quantity 44 on a historic avenue in Łódź, Poland. At the emotional middle of the sequence is the lilac, obtained as a present from somebody vital: an emblem of spring and blooming, but additionally of loss and separation.

Around this second, the studio, along with the objects inside it, turns into an intimate emotional setting. Yet the world filters in by means of the home windows, by no means absolutely breaking by means of. In the stress between interior and outer house, the sense of notion is unsettled.

Times grow to be confused: previous, current, future – they fall out of sequence. The identical views come again many times. Repetition feels nearly like prayer – an insistent circling across the identical motifs and frames, formed by a eager for presence. What stays is a quiet archive of a second.

Marcela Paniak is a Polish photographer working with photographic archives. She holds a PhD in artwork and graduated in Photography from the Film School in Lodz, the place she teaches archival pictures. She is a co-founder of the Viva Archiva! Foundation, devoted to artistic makes use of of photographic and movie archives. In her photographic work, she explores reminiscence, identification, historical past, absence, and pictures itself. She was awarded a scholarship from the Minister of Science and Higher Education and was nominated in reference to the worldwide pictures competition Les Rencontres d’Arles.