Family cooking by Sylwia Zawiślak

The work examines the everyday rituals where love and violence coexist within the same space. The home becomes a laboratory of emotions — a place where gestures of care easily turn into control, and conversation slips into conflict. The artist explores family relations through the lens of care, tension, and the unspoken words simmering just beneath the surface. Family Cooking reveals the ambivalent nature of domestic life — its warmth, and its heat.

Sylwia Zawiślak (b. 1991) is an interdisciplinary visual artist whose practice centers on printmaking, with a particular focus on linocut. Her work weaves together personal experiences of migration with reflections on global social tensions, exploring the intersections of power, identity, and representation. Through bold visual language and technical precision, Zawiślak addresses the complexities of contemporary life, from decolonial narratives to the critique of emotional capitalism and online mythologies.

Her artistic approach often extends beyond individual creation into the realm of participation and collaboration. She conducts workshops and community-based projects in which printmaking becomes both a medium and a method of dialogue, empowerment, and collective storytelling. This socially engaged dimension of her practice seeks to reclaim silenced narratives and transform shared experiences into acts of creative resistance.

This artwork was part of THE HOUSE WE CARRY exhibition in November 2025.