HOMECOMING — Installation View, 2025

BWA CENTRE FOR UNIQUE CERAMICS CONTEMPORARY ART GALLERY

WAŁBRZYCH-POLAND, JANUARY 2025

Curated by Ilona Sapka

Big Heads is a long-term series developed over fifteen years, created alongside repeated and extended hospital stays. Shaped by illness, trauma, and the slow process of emerging from them, the works carry the marks of interruption, waiting, and survival.

The series consists of collages on canvas, some of which were made under a hospital bed during periods of immobility. Working in confined conditions became part of the practice itself—gesture reduced, materials limited, time stretched. The figures that emerge are enlarged heads, disproportionate to their bodies, echoing states of dissociation, hyper-awareness, and mental endurance when the body is weakened.

Exhibited within Homecoming, the series appears alongside other bodies of work, forming a dialogue about return—return to the body, to perception, and to agency. Big Heads is not a conclusion, but a record of persistence: an archive of making as a way through illness rather than beyond it.