joanna piotrowska

NOMADIC NATURE

Polish artist Joanna Piotrowska, born in 1985, works at the intersection of photography, performance, and film. In this series, she photographs fragile, intimate shelters made from blankets, pillows, and furniture — part fort, part safe space — capturing them in black and white. These playful, childlike structures or sculptures become quiet metaphors for the safety and solitude we seek, even within the home. Her work also draws a visual parallel between domestic space and homelessness in the streets, reflecting the precarity of life and feeling, and the nomadic nature of the human condition.

— Olivier Zahm

all artwork by Joanna Piotrowska, untitled, 2016–21, various sizes, silver gelatin prints, courtesy of the artist