ROOTS

Roots celebrates artists of Polish heritage, exploring the threads that connect us to ancestry, culture and identity. Through themes of memory, migration, myth and place, the show reflects on what it means to carry Polish roots in a contemporary world.

Artists are invited to draw from personal stories, folklore and inherited histories to uncover how the past continues to shape the creative self.

Roots is a tribute to where we come from — and how it lives on through art.

 

Afterimage series

For Roots, I return to my Afterimage series, tracing memories of Janowski Forests, where my family foraged bilberries, mushrooms, and medicinal herbs, and the frozen Ice Pond, where we skated in winter sunlight.

This exhibition includes six artoworks: Ice Pond (fragment featured in the above banner), Backyard Bonfire (featured above), Hay & Ash, Accident, Janowski Forests, Underwater Treasures.

To view the series of images, visit my old website: Afterimage images

These, and other images, are gathered in my book Afterimage, accompanied by an essay by Dr Victoria Garnons-Williams, reflecting on my biochrome art practice, memory, place, and the passage of time.

 

In her essay Floribundum in Extrimis Dr Garnons-Williams wrote:

Buziak creates her own landscapes and seasons of time past. In her ‘Afterimage’ series she employs “chance, microbes, time and specific plans… to evoke and find contemporary forms for the emotional landscapes of her childhood in Poland. …It is this emotional space, this childhood intensity to which she is trying to give form”.

 

Afterimage is a hard cover monograph published by Queensland Centre of Photography. This 48-page bilingual (English/Polish) book includes all of my Afterimage series, as well as a comprehensive essay by Dr Victoria Garnons-Williams and a foreword by renowned American author Lyle Rexer; translations by Malgorzata Sady.

Please contact me if you’d like to purchase a copy, limited supply available.