'Brodno People' - I agreed with Massimiliano Gioni that I'll make a new group of sculptures for his exhibition in South Korea. The work was supposed to be a result of the collaboration with my neighbours in Brodno district in Warsaw. I asked them to make their own self-portraits and later on we travelled all together to the opening of the biennale.

'Matea' – portrayed pregnant with our son Kosma. I made this work to commemorate this pompous episode in our life. 'Self-portrait as an embryo' made in terracotta. It's a record of my reflection on my own immaturity.

'Guma' - It's a result of a sculpture workshop made together with the so-called troubled tees from Praga district in Warsaw. Our idea was to portrait the local 'hero' - Guma (direct translation - 'gum'), who was famous for his alcohol addiction and spending a lot of time in front of a local liquor store.

'Matejka and Pawel' - it's an aluminium cast that commemorates our plein-air near Acropolis in Athens, where together with my wife Matea we made each other's portraits that expressed our great love affair.

- Paweł Althamer
 

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