The artwork consists of a thin sheet of paper extracted from the family archive. It is marked with the stamp of an attorney’s office in Warsaw and covered on both sides with slanted, small writing in pencil. It is a note recreated from memory by attorney Juliusz Kloss detailing his participation in a spiritualist séance held in Laski near Warsaw.
For a number of years, Zuzanna Janin has been working with all kinds of her and her family’s archives and resources. These include both material objects – such as textiles, dead insects, building debris, and letters as well as remembered family histories. Family and home constitute a crucial element in her creative process, a persistent conjuring up of ghosts and retaining them in the present day.