Themes of protection, freedom, and oppression resonate across Polish artist Joanna Piotrowska’s oeuvre. This booklet is published to coincide with a solo exhibition at LE BAL, Paris, and expands the original publication Stable Vices with a further series, entitled Tata. It also includes French language translations of the book’s texts, by Sara De Chiara, Joanna Bednarek, and Dorota Masłowska, between them unpicking the complex tensions between domesticity and danger, aggression and tenderness that emanate from Piotrowska’s celebrated work, as well as a new essay by psychoanalyst Anouchka Grose.
