My art practise seeks to trace my biographical heritage, history and investigate my family’s involvement in resistance movements against occupations. Due to their activity in political underground movements, many family members also withdrew from society. Travelling with Stanislaw is a long-term performative piece where I travel to significant locations from my late Grandfather Stanislaw’s life with a pineapple sculpture that has a picture of him from when he participated in underground movements in Poland. For each family member that has either fully or partially withdrawn from society I have ascribed a symbolic representation of their withdrawal. For Stanislaw it is a fish and for me, the pineapple.
