Preface
This post is a regularly updated table of contents to the documentary archive I shoot and manage for Polish painter Agnieszka Zawisza. Files are grouped by year and not necessarily in the order the work was created, though most are shot soon after the paint has dried. The filenames reflect chronology. Artwork dimensions are not included and range from book-sized to wall-sized, so ask Agnieszka for info on size. Some pieces are featured more than once, either because they have been modified by the artist or because they are being displayed in a new context. Select images are close-ups of a detail, in which case an adjacent photo shows the entire work.
All photos by Natalia Osiatynska, 2017–2025. All paintings by Agnieszka Zawisza. All rights reserved.
For previous posts featuring Agnieszka’s art, follow the links below.
http://osiatynska.com/blog/2019/01/01/zawisza
http://osiatynska.com/blog/2020/01/28/diptych
Originally published on 2023 08 22. Last updated on 2025 09 09.
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2024 / 02 /15
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2020
2019
2018
2017
Endnote (2023 08 22)
Dear Agnieszka,
As the documentarian of your work, I keep a meticulous archive. You’ve often told me how useful that is for you. Yet you must reach out to me every time you want me to pull up a photo or check if one exists. Surely, there must be a method more helpful than that.
In search of an optimized system, I’ve created this post. It’s a place on the web you can visit whenever you want to navigate (or share) my complete collection of the photos I have taken at your request. The images are in reverse-chronological order and if you download any to your device they will have their original filenames, which mark the date on which each photo or batch of photos was taken. Of course you’ll still have to contact me directly whenever you need better resolution, but locating work and referring to it ought to be easier than ever. If you like, I can update this post whenever we generate new documentation together.
You will find I have included additional images—of a detail, of works juxtaposed, of you in the studio. Let me know if there are any pictures you’d like me to remove or any types of photos you want me to omit from this collection in the future.
In the interest of complete transparency, I’m conceiving of this, writing it, and posting in on a Friday in late September, but I shall give this post an August date so that my blog remains organized exactly the way that I like it.
With gratitude for our enlightening collab,
Natalia
P.S.—If I were an even better documentarian, my reproductions would contain metadata on each painting’s actual dimensions. Luckily I am still pretty reliable and clearly good enough, since you’ve kept me around for nearly six years!