Artist Statement:

Drawing on personal archives—family photographs, personal photography, and previously printed work—hauntings is a collection of remembered fragments, printed and assembled into imagined spaces. Repeatedly re-photographed, re-printed, and re-collaged, photographs found in family albums combine with photographs of the present to form images haunted by both memory and process. 

Bio:

Agata Garbowska is a print-media artist living in Treaty 1 Territory in Winnipeg, Manitoba. In her artistic practice, she uses collage and photographic print processes to explore incidents of haunting in relation to print media, memory, and time. Born and raised in Edmonton, Alberta, she holds a BFA from the University of Alberta and in 2024 completed an MFA in printmaking from the University of Manitoba. In 2021 she finished an Emerging Artist Residency at SNAP. Since then, Garbowska spends as much time as possible in her local community printshop.