Genevieve is a name which I could give my grandmother; dignified, lofty, beautiful and it does not suit to my grandmother at all. Grandma Gienia lives in the old house which is too big and too important to have anything changed there so the walls turn into ruin and the rooms into lumber. My memories and my childhood blurred somewhere in the corners of the walls and in the backyard bushes, turn into dust rising on furniture and on the old toys. Nowhere else do I feel so much at home like there I do. Grandma and I are becoming more and more similar to each other – as inseparable school friends. Now I am back to this place trying to stop time. I know that it will never work.
This photographs are the pictures of me which I shot myself in the house; dressed in old found clothes together with some abandoned items which are rediscovered by me. I join them, try to fit and I dream of being back to time that no longer exist.
Marcela Paniak (real name Katarzyna Wozniak) born in Poland in Lodz is a student of National Higher School of Film, Television and Theatre in Lodz and a member of Association of Polish Artists Photographers and also Photographic Society of Lodz. Awarded at the numerous photographic competitions. Already presented her works at several exhibitions in the country and abroad.
Weekend portfolio selected by Elodie Mailliet Storm
