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She is an interdisciplinary artist, art activist and researcher. Her artistic practice consists of painting, textiles and performances in public space. She is the author of installations and collages using archival resources and accompanied by spoken performances. She is involved in individual and collective practices addressing discrimination and violence against marginalised individuals and groups. In 2018, she received her PhD from the Faculty of Graphic Arts at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw (Spaces of Ignorance, 2018). She has participated in numerous exhibitions at home and abroad. Her exhibition Women Fighters: An Affective Archive (2023) at Studio THEATREGALLERY in Warsaw  presented a visual essay on the resistance of Jewish women from the late 19th century to the communist era. Her interdisciplinary art project ‘Volunteers for Freedom’ about Jewish female participants in the International Brigades was presented as part of the exhibition Niepodległe: Women, Independence and National Discourse at the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw (2018/19), at the exhibition Difficult Pasts. Connected Worlds at the Latvian National Museum of Art in Riga (2020/21), and then at the National Gallery of Art in Vilnius (2022). A research-based art-activist project entitled Mechitza. Individual and Collective Resistance of Women during the Shoah was exhibited at the POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews in Warsaw (2019), the 12th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art: Still Present!  (2022), and at the Center for Jewish History in New York (2022/23). She is currently pursuing research and an art project about Jewish anarchists. Her works are in private and institutional collections. She is a co-founder of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Bloc and a board member of the Association of the Jewish Historical Institute of Poland.

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