“All the Images will Disappear.”

Annie Ernaux "The Years"

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Ten family portraits from the second half of the 20th century, found in the Grochów Social Archives, depicting women with children in everyday situations, created the basis for the light mural-animation evoking the role of caregivers that women have in families. This role places them in the domestic sphere, which remains on the outskirts of what is generally considered important in history and society. The projection on the wall of the house symbolically brought caregivers out of oblivion and allowed them to re-emerge in public spaces, questioning the place assigned to them by history and society.

 

The form of projection, in which photographs appeared in fragments and overlapped one another, evoked the way human memory functions, in which images appear, disappear, and transform over time under the influence of changing perspectives and new experiences.

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The projection took place on October 25, 2025 as part of the event The Voices of Grochów – a sound installation at the Szembeka Bazaar (pl. Głosy Grochowa – instalacja dźwiękowa na Bazarze Szembeka), organized by the House of Art (Dom Sztuki).

It was attended by the residents of Grochów and Warsaw as well as the regulars of the Szembeka Bazaar .

 

Content cooperation: Ewa Pietraszek, Paulina Haratyk, Marta Sobi. the projection: Antek Rylke

The Voices of Grochów - a sound installation at the Szembek Bazaar event was co-financed by the Minister of Culture and National Heritage as part of the "Linguistic Diversity" grant program of the Institute for Linguistic Diversity of the Republic of Poland. The project is co-financed by the City of Warsaw.

Patronage: Center of Community Archives, Foundation Towards Dialogue, “Glissando” Magazine.