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Zuzanna Janin has been photographing the women of her family for years, while experimenting with the laminated picture technique. Using entire silhouettes or individual body parts—her own, her daughter’s, mother’s, grandmother’s, other relatives’—the artist immersed them in transparent plastic, creating sculptural photographic objects. She laminated other parts of her body—nail clippings, hair, dead skin—in other pieces as well. Follow Me, Change Me, It’s Time is one of the early works where Janin explores themes of transience and remembrance.

Sculptor, creator of video and photographic installations and performance interventions. She studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw and the École Cantonale d’Art du Valais in Sierre, Switzerland. Daughter of painter Maria Anto. She explores themes of remembrance and identity in her work, experimenting with materials and objects, such as candy floss, fog, or even socks, all potential sculpting material. She founded the lokal_30 Gallery in Warsaw. She won the Best Artist ArtVilnius ‘16 Award and was a finalist for Jerusalem’s Adi Prize for Art 2003. Nominated for the Polityka Passport Award (1998, 1999, 2002) and the Art in the City Award in Brussels (2010), she was named one of the 50 Courageous of the Year 2018 by the Wysokie Obcasy supplement to Gazeta Wyborcza daily. She participated in the Istanbul Biennial (1992), the Biennale of Sydney (1993), the Liverpool Biennial (1998), and the 54^th Venice Art Biennale (2011). She lives and works in Warsaw.