Vampires, It’s Nothing To Laugh at
Video Installation
2022

This 3-channel installation uses the figure of a Slavic vampire as a metaphor for migrant identity and otherness. The work explores the notions of truth and fiction by examining various tools and systems of power that seem to allow us to distinguish one from the other. The piece explores issues of colonialism, academic classism and ethics of representation. It tells a story of losing one’s identity and reinventing oneself anew.




Discomfort of Evening, installation view, Zachęta National Gallery, curated by Magdalena Komornicka, Warsaw 2022, photo by Hanna Linkowska.

Discomfort of Evening, installation view, Zachęta National Gallery, curated by Magdalena Komornicka, Warsaw 2022, photo by Tytus Szabelski.


Casting, film still, Kinga Michalska.

Vampires, It’s Nothing to Laugh at, film still, Kinga Michalska.


Vampires, It’s Nothing to Laugh at, film still, Kinga Michalska.


Vampires, It’s Nothing to Laugh at, film still, Kinga Michalska. 


Discomfort of Evening, installation view, Zachęta National Gallery, curated by Magdalena Komornicka, Warsaw 2022, photo by Hanna Linkowska.


Discomfort of Evening, installation view, Zachęta National Gallery, curated by Magdalena Komornicka, Warsaw 2022, photo by Hanna Linkowska. 


Borders, film still, Kinga Michalska.