NATALIA LL (Natalia Lach-Lachowicz) (1937-2022), Post-consumer art, 1975/2021

color photography, print, dibond; 4 photographs; 92 x 122 cm (each print);
signed on back on sticker; author's print, edition: 2/5+ap;
1975 (year in which the negative was created); 2021 (year in which the print was created); framed work designed by the artist.
The photographs are certified by the ZW Foundation.
"In Natalia LL's works, registration involves, first of all, activities, actions transforming into signs [...] The sense of this activity is perhaps most clearly visible in Natalia's last series of works, "Consumption Photography." The ambiguity of the action, which transforms from a simple act of eating, as it were, into a sophisticated eroticism, and finally into an almost magical gesture, into a system of signs, a code that would seem to be universally used, yet unknown to us, not only intrigues, but also causes the awakening of reflection precisely on the sign, on the codes we commonly use to achieve mutual understanding. And this reflection, which ultimately becomes a reflection of art on art, is undoubtedly one of Natalia Lach-Lachowicz's most valuable artistic achievements." - wrote Antoni Dzieduszycki in 1973 ("Fotografia", no. 7/1973).
Natalia Lach-Lachowicz, known under the pseudonym Natalia LL, was considered one of the most important Polish visual artists of the second half of the 20th century. From 1957 to 1963 she studied at the State Higher School of Fine Arts in Wroclaw. Since 1964 she was a member of the Union of Polish Artists Photographers. In the 1970s she was also active in the fields of performance, video and installation. In 1970, together with her husband Andrzej Lachowicz, Zbigniew Dłubak and critic Antoni Dzieduszycki, she founded the PERMAFO group and gallery, operating in Wroclaw until 1981. Together, the artists pursued a program to popularize conceptual art and new media, as well as the author's so-called permanent art.
Since 1975 Natalia LL joined the international feminist art movement taking part in numerous symposia and exhibitions. In 1974 she began to create her best-known series of photographs entitled. "Consumer Art."
For her artistic activity she was awarded, among others, the Katarzyna Kobro Award, the Silver Medal "Meritorious to Culture Gloria Artis", and the Rosa Schapire Award. On June 22, 2022, the Eugeniusz Geppert Academy of Fine Arts in Wroclaw awarded her the title of Doctor Honoris Causa. Natalia LL's works are currently in museum collections both in Poland and around the world.