Galeria Działań, Warszawa 2011
‘Repetitions’ by Agnieszka Rożnowska is a project based on a basic module – the author’s body. Reproduced hundreds of times and reduced to a simplified form without any details, in ‘Repetitions’ it has become not a self-portrait, but a pictogram. Personal theme is not involved here at all; the technique used by Rożnowska could be used to multiply any pattern. At the same time, the more duplicated image appears within the project, the further away it becomes from its designation. Paradoxically, ‘Repetitions’ are based on the body, and at the same time they detract strongly from it. By giving up telling her own story, Rożnowska achieves the effect of a universal project.
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