Ewa Partum (b. 1945, Grodzisk Mazowiecki), From the series "Self-identification", 1980/1989

Gelatin-silver print/barite paper
Dimensions: 39 x 50 cm
signed and dated in pencil underneath: 'E Partum 1980/1989'

Signed and dated in pencil on the reverse: 'E Partum 1980/1989'

Biography
Author of many installations and actions in public space, performer, filmmaker and photographer. Creates visual, conceptual poetry. She was one of the first in Poland to engage in conceptual art, e.g.: installation "Presence/Unpresence" (Sopot, 1965), "Legality of Space" (Lodz, 1971), "Breakfast on the Grass according to E. Manet" (Biennale of Spatial Forms Zjazd Marzycieli Elbląg, 1971). Her work played a pioneering role in Poland in the fields of conceptual art, body-art, feminist art and critical art. In the 1970s, she ran her own gallery "Address" in Lodz, dealing with conceptual art. She participated in many international exhibitions. Her best-known photographic series is "Self-identification" from 1980. Ewa Partum's works are in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art / MoMA / New York, TATE Modern in London, as well as in museum collections in Berlin, Lodz, the National Museum and the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, Wroclaw and many others. Her works are part of the collection of the VERBUND Collection of the Feminist Avant-Garde in Vienna.