Replacement Memory / Pamięć zastępcza

photographic series, 2025–2026

In Replacement Memory, I reconstruct, invent and reproduce my own memories. By attaching a childhood photograph of myself to a lifeless mannequin, I create a figure suspended between presence and absence, between an intimate archive and its artificial reconstruction.

The photograph no longer functions as evidence of the past. It becomes a prosthesis of memory: something intimate and recognisable, yet at the same time artificial and radically foreign.

Replacement Memory: a mannequin with a childhood photograph attached to its face, seen through a dark translucent surface.
Replacement Memory: a man standing beside a child-sized mannequin with a photographic face in a forest at night.
Replacement Memory: close-up of a mannequin with a cut childhood photograph attached to its face.
Replacement Memory: a man and a mannequin with a photographic face lying beside each other on grass.
Replacement Memory: a man reading beside a mannequin with a photographic face in bed.