Few things are as much of a disappointment as festively going to the zoo with your child - and there's an animal tucked away, turned away. Glittering eyes, anxiety, indignation - what to do? You can probably go to another cage or enclosure and check. Worse if the trip was calculated for a specific species (experienced parents never do this). Well, no attractions today! Well, tough, we'll go and get a balloon, candyfloss, stroking the misery otherwise.

Katarzyna Zdrodowska shows animals differently than we would expect. She catches them at their very moment of leisure. Hidden, upturned, obscured. Sometimes using the camouflage technique brilliantly. From which point can you 'count' an encounter with a giraffe - how do you view its muzzle or neck? And does an elephant only count from the trunk or the ears?

Zdrodowska takes photographs where the expectant visitor leaves disappointed. She watches when the cage empties, focuses her gaze on the details, accompanies them in their attempt to disappear. The series of works 'This is how I feel' raises questions: on the one hand, about the zoo as family entertainment and visitors' expectations; on the other, about the animals: their work, emotions and feelings. The latter are most present here. I look at the lion and think we have the same. Or the bear - it does as we do when no one is looking.

Katarzyna Zdrodowska - photographer, translator and trainer. She has a degree in English. For years, as a social skills trainer, she conducted trainings and workshops for employees of various organisations. This year's graduate of the Institute of Creative Photography in Opava, Czech Republic.

exhibition: 11.07 - 17.08.2025
vernissage: 11.07.2025 / Friday / 19.00
Gallery of the Służewski House of Culture "Przy Kozach"