I Hate My Body When You're Gone "is a series of films and photographs on self-abuse, granting the artist a deep and perverse pleasure." (o.pl)
"Janich bites herself, smears her body with lipstick, scratches her breasts, cuts her toes with a knife, making them bleed and provokes vomiting by repeatedly sticking her hand down her throat. Tension rises, as does the feeling of queasiness deep inside us. We do not know if the experiences the artist provokes for herself do indeed bring her pleasure. She seems like a trapped animal, hypnotized by the headlights. (...) The artist tries to make the spectator react: scream, take the knife out of her hand or simply to hug her, which would end the cruel process of self-decay."
"these photographs are really violent!" (Radio Channel 1)
"Janich's films, shot in the post-Dogma esthetic, bear all the signs of self-made dairy straight out of a female boudoir. Yet her photographs question the glamour photo esthetic. Her body is bruised and battered." (o.pl)
"The artist is not afraid to abuse her bodily flesh to show us haunting secrets of existence normally just whispered upon. Her body becomes an absolute, a sacrifice, an offering. An all-encompassing declaration of: I will do everything, give everything, just to get closeness in return." (Zuzanna Sokolowska, PhD)
https://www.fotopolis.pl/tagi/3648-agnes-janich
https://kultura.onet.pl/wiadomosci/i-hate-my-body-when-youre-gone/qqsvq8z