Description

Natalia Lach-Lachowicz is a conceptual feminist artist who is most known for photography, performances and video art. She studied at the State College of Fine Arts in Wrocław and a year later in 1964 she became a member of the Association of Polish Art Photographers (Związek Polskich Artystów Fotografików). Natalia LL was a senior lecturer at the University of Fine Arts in Poznań between 2004 and 2013. In her practice she is fond of deconstructing single photographs into a series of photographs. The series are grouped and arranged to reflect the progressive unfolding of an event. Usually the artist herself is posing in these photos. Her gestures and movements unfurl as a chain of actions. Photography became a meta-reality for Natalia LL where visual illusion is kept at a minimum while emphasizing the female body and its physicality. Her take on feminism hinges on the need to manifest a feeling of liveliness. The Body Alphabet shows the artist in a series of poses which imitates the order of the alphabet. The naked body in its various poses however is also a reference to sexuality and desire, a leitmotif in Natalia LL’s work.