Natalia LL [Natalia LACH-LACHOWICZ] (1937-2022), Consumer Art, 1972.

black and white photograph, paper, 18 x 17.5 cm;
On the back description: NATALIA LL / "Consumer art" / 1972 / "Consumer art" / Photos on the
paper / size: 100 x 100 cm (sic! in pencil); edition not specified; vintage print. The photograph is accompanied by a certificate from the ZW Foundation stating that the offered photograph is from the same time as the larger
composition in size 100 x 100 cm.

Natalia LL's "consumer art" to this day
is gaining new meanings. In the years 1972-1975, when the
the artist conducted a documentary project consisting of
On photographing the manifestations of everyday life,
such as food-consumption, she was simultaneously active with
with, among others, Andrzej Lachowicz and Zbigniew Dłubak
in the Permafo group preaching the postulate of "Permanent Art"
- recording current events. It quickly turned out
turned out that the ordinary process of eating stopped and reproduced
in frames could be interpreted as a semi-erotic, partly disgusting act.
erotic, partly disgusting - if, for example, the photographed
model, for example, the liquid being spit out trickles down her chin.
It can also raise the issue of consumer culture
In communist Poland - as a scarcity of goods, in turn
in the 1990s the need to acquire and surround oneself with things.
In subsequent decades and during social changes
Natalia LL's "consumer art" began to be considered
also in the context of feminism.