Born in Poland in 1985. Lives and works in London and Mumbai. Studied at the Goldsmiths College, London, the Academy of Performing Arts, Prague, and the London College of Communication.

Architecture plays a central role in the work of the Polish artist Alicja Dobrucka. Her primary interest, however, is not in the usual, static representation of buildings, but rather in the forms of life that architecture makes possible, suppresses, or prevents. In numerous earlier series, she describes changes in urban space as well as of dwellings in or around cities and their impact on the living conditions of the respective inhabitants. Found objects and details of the furnishings of people’s homes, perceived as cells of family life, illustrate the artist's very personal approach.

In recent years, Alicja Dobrucka has worked increasingly in India. For INSIGHTS, she visited the Wienerberger plant in Bangalore, the company’s first production site in Asia. This visit, during which she took the first photographs for this new black-and-white series, was the starting point for a new body of work, which found its provisional endpoint in the low-cost housing project by Pritzker Prize winner Balkrishna V. Doshi in Aranya, Indore (India). The artist, who likes to describe herself as a "diarist", thus follows her own path from the making of a brick to its use in housing construction.

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