FWJG (Francesca Woodman Justyna Górowska)
2009 - 2015



FWJG is a long-term performative project inspired by the photographs of Francesca Woodman. Over several years, Justyna Górowska reimagined and re-performed selected compositions from Woodman’s enigmatic self-portraits, transforming them into short performance videos and black-and-white photographic stills.
The work departs from imitation toward dialogue across time — a conceptual and emotional encounter between two artists exploring the fragile boundary between presence and absence, body and image, being and non-being. Each performance was conceived and enacted by Górowska, recorded on video, and later translated into a single photographic frame, echoing Woodman’s aesthetic while asserting its own autonomy.
The resulting images and videos evoke a sense of haunting intimacy — as if watching someone else’s memories unfold. Through this process, Górowska repositions Woodman’s legacy within the language of contemporary performance and moving image, transforming still photography into a living, time-based ritual.

The cycle began in 2009 and culminated in 2015 with two exhibitions: “Artists from Krakow: Generation 1980–1990” at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Kraków (MOCAK) and a solo presentation at Cydonia Gallery in Dallas.

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