Michalina Kacperak. Soft Spot

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 The hybrid photobook with embedded nutshell zines, “Soft Spot” is photographs, project sketches, and text by Michalina Kacperak, twined with pencil and marker drawings, mini zines, and a tale by Zosia Kacperak.

Through family portraits, fantastical scenography taken seriously as play, marginalia, and sheaves of drawings, “Soft Spot” chronicles the efforts of the Polish artist’s younger sister, Zosia, to weave a bedroom cocoon for herself within a family apartment in which the poison of paternal alcoholism “leaks into more than one liver.” Zosia, insulating her habitat with stuffed animals, turns her bedroom walls into cave paintings of cartoon characters while seeking an escape from the labyrinth through storytelling.

Michalina, in the role of artist-as-big-sister and de facto guardian in a context of parental codependency, collaborates with her whole, recovering family to assemble photographic sets—Seussian safe-rooms cushioned by polychromatic putty and ponies, in which rocks are allies, molecules glitter, and doodling is fundamental.

Each copy of “Spot Spot” is tucked into a cardboard box with embossed title. The boxes are a tribute to the shoeboxes and biscuit tins chock-full of talismans that a child keeps under their bed. Those sacrosanct archives of childhood.

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