DISORDER
Voloshyn Gallery is pleased to present DISORDER, a solo exhibition by Aneta
Grzeszykowska.
Spanning from past to recent works, the artist incorporates
performance, photography, and object-making, frequently incorporating materials such as animal skins and hyperrealistic replicas. Her practice addresses questions of existence, mortality, and the relationship between body, image, and identity.
In DISORDER, Grzeszykowska engages her immediate environment—family members, domestic animals, and her own body—to reconsider conventional hierarchies within the household. Through staged scenarios, she introduces shifts in roles and identities: humans take on animal attributes, objects assume anthropomorphic qualities, and the artist positions herself in alternate familial roles. The exhibition explores the intersections of control, kinship, and subjectivity, presenting situations in which categories such as human/animal, life/death, and youth/age are unsettled.
The exhibition centers on THE DAUGHTER (2025), a new body of work in which Grzeszykowska employs a hyperrealistic mask based on her own face at the age of fourteen, reconstructed from family photographs. Used in performative photographs with relatives, the mask enables her to reframe her place within domestic dynamics. Its inanimate features emphasize passivity, while the combination of a mature body with a youthful face produces an ambiguous effect that underscores themes of memory, identity, and temporality.
Also included is DOMESTIC ANIMALS (2022), where pigskin masks of the artist’s face are fitted onto her dogs. The photographs produced from these interventions examine ideas of recognition, projection, and estrangement.
The exhibition further features MAMA (2018), a hyperrealistic silicone replica of the artist, created with professional fabricators. Photographed alongside her daughter in a range of constructed situations, the figure functions simultaneously as surrogate and object, raising questions about representation, identity, and the unstable boundary between person and image.
With DISORDER, Grzeszykowska continues her investigation into selfhood, mortality, and the shifting relationships among human, animal, and object.