Janin, Zuzanna: Follow Me, Change Me, It's Time (1995)

The Polish artist creates works in a great variety of genres from sculpture to video art. In her works, which have a place within feminist and social-theory discourse and are primarily focused on her own personality and identity, she examines space, memory, and time, linking with the female body and the theme of transience on many levels. In the series Follow me, Change me, it's Time, the black-and-white photographs show body parts. The main piece in the series is the full body version already assembled several times. She also cuts up and laminates the black-and-white photographs made of herself and her family members (grandmother, mother, daughter), and places the partly translucent images over one another. Bodies are close to each other and – since they symbolize the years past – somewhat distanced at the same time. From the bodies of different ages she thus generates a space and time series, condensing personal time and personal history into one single work. In Janin's work, abstract concepts – eternity and transience, constancy and mutability – are confronted with each other.