Critics

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

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

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

„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

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

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

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

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 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 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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