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| Alicja Dobrucka. 'I like you, I like you a lot' |
Welcome
everyone! A new year has begun and Wallflower is thrilled to provide a
sneak peak and video interview of Alicja Dobrucka's upcoming exhibition
"I like you, I like you a lot" as our first post of 2013. We are looking
forward to this and many other fantastic shows.
The London-based Polish photographer draws her
inspiration from her home country Poland. In her artist statement she explains:
“My work is mainly about the familiar, known from direct
experience. I’m a diarist, I work intuitively, photography, documenting comes
to me naturally. I don’t glamourize reality, a certain raw quality to the work.
I’m interested in the journey - the conversations that need
to happen for the work to develop. As an artist its very important to me that
the work can move and be understood by people,
audiences not only from the fine art world but also the ones who have no
knowledge of critical theory."
'I like you, I like you a lot' is a project
about family and grieving and began once Alicja got news that her brother had
passed away. The work opens up the personal space of mourning to broader
affects and poses questions about vulnerability, youth, motherhood, and
domesticity. Alicja's camera later returns to central Europe and her brothers
youthful group of friends in a small urban-rural locality, as they find their
way to a fuller, more mature, life.
