Natalia LL has been using chairs in her works since the 1980s. She has been building small installations from them or – since the beginning of the 1990s – large and complex structures. They are usually… Read more
Critics
Natalia LL’s world of sex and aesthetics, Bogdan Iacob, 2012
Recently closed, Natalia LL’s show at Ernst Museum in Budapest, titled Opus Magnum, was an exhibition that offered me the privilege of a double and downright exciting discovery. Thus, l’ve had the opportunity to encounter an… Read more
Existances of intimacy in the images of Natalia LL, Agnieszka Kwiecień, 2011
Many interpretations have grown around the art of Natalia LL, mainly based on the feminist approach which emphasizes the presence of the problem of sexuality and eroticism as opposed to the social patriarchal structures. Agata Jakubowska… Read more
Natalia in Natalia, Zofia Gebhard, 2011
„Art happens in each moment of reality; every fact, every second is the one and only for every man and never repeats itself. That is why I register ordinary and trivial events, like eating, sleeping, copulating,… Read more
Mythical and Magical World of Natalia LL or the Artist as a Modern Shaman, Alicja Cichowicz, 2010
Since the advent of time the function of myths and magical rituals was to generate harmony between the human mind, body and the surrounding world. Myths explained all physical phenomena using images borrowed from life –… Read more
Staging the Body – The Photo and Film Works of Natalia LL, Walter Seidl, 2009
Since the 1960s, the photo and video works of Natalia LL have revolved around the role of the body as a cultural signifier for the construction of artistic versions of reality relating both to the vulnerability… Read more
Transformations of Natalia LL, Ryszard K. Przybylski, 2009
Natalia LL, in the work Transfiguration of Odin, assumes a role of a witch who represents wisdom and power. However, it is worth adding that these attributes originate from the area dealt by demonology. The witch… Read more
Natalia ist sex, Agata Jakubowska, 2009
The activity of the PERMAFO Gallery co-founded by Natalia LL together with Andrzej Lachowicz, Zbigniew Dłubak and Antoni Dzieduszycki was inaugurated in 1971 by the artist’s installation Intimate Photography. Natalia LL used there her photographs made… Read more
The Album of Presence by Natalia LL, Adam Sobota, 2009
The artistic output of Natalia LL may be perceived as an album with references to various situations related to activities in the field of arts. The term ‘album’ comes to mind as a result of the… Read more
The Album of Presence by Natalia LL, Adam Sobota, 2009
The artistic output of Natalia LL may be perceived as an album with references to various situations related to activities in the field of arts. The term ‘album’ comes to mind as a result of the… Read more
Natalia LL’s Essay on Man, Alicja Cichowicz, 2009
Brunhilda (“the one-who-fights-in-armour”) is a mythical valkyrie punished by Odin (Woden), her father-god, for disobedience. The goddess loves Sigfried, her saviour, but wishes him dead for his later betrayal of which he is actually not guilty…. Read more
Being in an Erotic Clench, Between Life and Death, Agnieszka Kwiecień, 2009
In 1974 Natalia LL produced a highly erotic work entitled Natalia ist sex. Using photographs measuring 24 x 36 mm she arranged them to make an inscription that said “NATALIA IST SEX” (the new version of… Read more
Touch Me! The Softness of the Animal Art of Natalia LL, Agnieszka Kwiecień, 2008
Ages ago in archaic times man lost his permanent fur and thus was forced to cover himself with animal skins and furs. Today he dresses somewhat differently, but fur and animal skins still remain a very… Read more
The Same But of Many Faces. Mythical and Symbolic Incarnations of Natalia LL Małgorzata Jankowska, 2008
Natalia LL’s art consistently explores the depths of human and her own, personal, creative, free and limitless nature; it marks the fascination of the artist with the “power of the human mind”, of “human spirituality” and,… Read more
Art with Animal Thread, Adam Sobota, 2008
In 2007 Natalia LL has begun realization of the series of works named “Furry Hairiness”, or “Softness of Touch”, which are based on transformation of fragments of her earlier works, made in 1977-1978 as the cycle… Read more
Forms of Presence and Concealment in the Art of Natalia LL, Grzegorz Sztabiński, 2008
A photographic self-portrait by Natalia LL from 1978 shows her sitting in a slightly provocative pose, dressed in a short fur coat, with bare legs and her face hidden behind large, dark glasses. At first she… Read more
Made in Order to Replace the Natural Equivalent – the Existence of Natalia LL, Agnieszka Kwiecień, 2007
The origins of the unique art of Natalia LL can be traced in her conceptual experiments and in the role that she assigned to the photographic medium at the time. Here photography comes to the foreground… Read more
Spirit in the machine, Łukasz Ronduda, 2006
We can describe the work of Natalia LL from the 70ties as suspended between “surrealistic” polish conceptualism of the 60ties, based on the conception of Imagination (the artist often emphasizes her connections with the art of… Read more
Consumption Forecast, Adam Sobota, 2004
In one of Natalia’s LL published statements we find the opinion, that art by no means solves existential mysteries, but in the peculiar way points at them. Still in the essay Art and Freedom from 1987,… Read more
The Game of Photogenicality, Jan Kurowicki, 2004
While the world was abandoning the traditional religiosity and began to sink into the humdrum reality of everyday life, it slowly became preoccupied with the human body, filled with a peculiar sacredness which replaced religion. That… Read more
Volucres Coeli – Art as a Search for Freedom, Małgorzata Jankowska, 2003
The art of Natalia LL, beginning from the 70s, is a “search for art” understood as the artist’s extra-material stream of consciousness. Yet this search cannot be freed from the real and the mundane. Perhaps that… Read more
Body as Experience, Art as Cognition, Lech Lechowicz, 2003
The most recent work series by Natalia Lach-Lachowicz, “The Birth According to Body”, “The Birth According to Spirit” (2000) and “The Birds of Freedom” (2001-2002) have marked a new stage in her vast artistic career, the… Read more
Body and Freedom, Magdalena Wicherkiewicz, 2002
l think it is no overstatement to say that corporeality and a search for freedom have been the focus of Natalia LLs art since the beginning of her career. Although they have not always been the… Read more
Interview with Natalia LL, Krzysztof Jurecki, 2001 – 2002
Krzysztof Jurecki: How did you become interested in photography during your studies in Wrocław in the early 60s.? Natalia LL (pseudonym of Natalia Lach-Lachowicz): I started to take photographs in 1960 during my studies in Wrocław,… Read more
Existence and Consumption in the Art of Natalia LL, Grzegorz Sztabiński, 1999
The art of Natalia LL is usually analysed in the context of the conceptual tendencies in the art of the recent three decades. The artist herself has not questioned this perspective. In her article Teoria Głowy… Read more
Wojciech Krukowski, 1998
The presence of Natalia LL in art is characterised by her active, research-focused attitude, which seems to be oriented not so much towards the sustained achievement of goals, but towards the exploration of new perspectives. Such… Read more
Circle of Symbols, Anna Ciosk, 1996
The term symbol, which is derived from the Greek symbolon, originally meant one piece of an object (usually the object was a pair of dice) that had been broken in two, which could still be matched… Read more
Allusive Space, Adam Sobota, 1995
The display of Natalia’s LL works entitled „The Allusive Space” in January 1995 at the Arsenał gallery in Białystok was one of her most interesting one-artist exhibitions. In recent years Natalia LL had many such shows… Read more
[DE] Nach “Dem Desetz und Dem Takt Des Schwanzes”, Duśan Brozman, 1995
Zum ersten Mal in der Geschichte der Kunst entstanden in dieser Zeit Arbeiten, die systematisch die traditionelle erotische Motivwelt unterwandern und die Funktionen der Frau in der Gesellschaft in Frage stellen. Das Werk der Natalia LL… Read more
On Art and Erotism – Interview given by Natalia LL to Wiesława Wierzchowska, 1994
Wiesława Wierzchowska: The problem of eroticism is apparently essential to your rich, multi-threaded and multi-medial oeuvre. Always present, it is at times ostentatious, at other times metaphorical or barely perceptible as the deep ground of projects… Read more
Allusive Space, Stefanie Bauman, 1995
Natalia Lach-Lachowicz, who calls herself Natalia LL, is regarded as one of Poland’s most distinguished artists of world renown. The works of art created by her appear in the borderland of various genres: photography, painting, installation… Read more
Natalia LL, Piotr Krakowski, 1993
Natalia Lach-Lachowicz is an internationally recognized conceptual artist and co-founder of the PERMAFO Gallery. She has presented her work in all the world’s most important museums and galleries. Residing in Wrocław, she is not so well… Read more
About Natalia LL, Bożena Kowalska, 1993
Natalia Lach-Lachowicz — artist and intellectual, debating problems of photography and painting, working in the borderland between these two disciplines of art. She creates objects, installations and also stages actions-performances that sometimes go on for several… Read more
Mimetic Views, Gerald Piffl, 1991
Natalia LL uses her own body, in a private and intimate sense, as material for the realization of her creative vision. Self-portrait, for which Natalia LL uses a variety of media, such as photograph, painting, performance,… Read more
The Art of Self – Creation or Natalia LL in the 1980s…, Ryszard Ratajczak, 1990
It is striking how well I remember Natalia LLs photo-images. I keep them tight under my eyelids and do not have to reach for her photographs and catalogues. Between January and March 1989, Natalia LL presented… Read more
Signs of Presence, Andrzej Saj, 1990
The great majority of recent works by Natalia LL holds to the convention of the self-portrait of a quite specific type. While the artist uses her external features – face, head, and occasionally the whole body… Read more
Woman’s Art, Barbara Baworowska, 1978
We can speak about women’s art since 1969, i.e. since the moment when a group called “Woman Artist in Revolution” was founded, a group which demanded from the Whitney Museum that their art be included in… Read more
Post-Consumer Art, Andrzej Sapija, 1976
The series Categorical Statements from the Sphere of Post-Consumer Art expresses an artistic consciousness confirmed by art. They contain Statements which are at the same time postulates: the most important declaration concerns the progressing structural and… Read more
Grammaticalizations of Natalia LL, Jan Świdziński, 1975
LL presented her new work at Galeria Współczesna in Warsaw. The consistency in which the artist’s creative efforts during the past years, as well as the related implications of that work for contemporary art encourage a… Read more