zieleniak44

(Un) Happy Family Album (Mother's Side)The (Un)Happy Family Album project is about transgenerational trauma and the role of blood ties in our lives. The basis of my work is a traditional family album and old photos that are used in process of creating collages. Old photos are mixted with contemporary photographs to find hidden family's secrets and roots of the problems passing from one generation to another. In my (un) Happy Family Album I want to show real faces, passions and suffering. Behind the traditional smiles of our ancestors there are real dramas, and unexplained stories and secrets. I try to talk about things that had a significant impact on my life - even though I may not have been born yet. Transgenerational trauma is often related to war, but not necessarily. It may also result from stories that took place after in a specific reality of rebuilding the country after the damage of war and the reality of the Polish People's Republic