Bits and Pieces, a site-specific installation on the facades of 3 buildings in the former Lodz ghetto where children died of hunger and overwork while producing objects for other children.
Critically acclaimed, the work was hailed as "giving the impression of helpless sheaths missing the violently eliminated bodies from the past." (...)
"[Janich] obsessed by the past, however free of glorification or demonization—reconstructs with impressive intuition that what she has never known." (Walter Keller, Zürich)
"Janich restigmatizes the buildings, depriving them of their memorial innocence. Thinking of Boltanski again, she mobilizes a wider set of associations to connect this manufacture to contemporary forms of slave labor in countries far beyond Poland." (Lyle Rexer, PhD, Aperture art critic, New York, NY)
"Janich focusses on children. After all, they are the ones who lost even their childhood, one's priciest treasure, here." (Karolina Murzic, Lodz)
"Tiny doll dresses, sleeping jumpers, multiple children’s earmuffs dot the sides of the abandoned Lodz ghetto whose windows are now cracked and broken. (…) Empty suits and lifeless objects meant to be inhabited and used, hang like fallen angels around these windows." (Thyrza Nichols Goodeve, PhD, Artforum art critic, catalog essay, New York, NY).
http://www.wschodnia.pl/wystawy_2010_4.html
http://www.lodz-art.eu/wydarzenia/wydarzenia/agnes_janich_wschodnia
http://lodz.wyborcza.pl/lodz/1,35135,8049182,Agnes_Janich____Mozna_by_ze_mnie_zrobic_21_mydel.html