Rafał Zajko is an artist working in sculpture, performance and costume. His work deals with themes of monuments, socialist public sculpture and the relationship between body, technology and folklore. Zajko was born in the Polish People’s Republic a year before the collapse of the Berlin Wall. He recently completed his MA in Fine Art at Goldsmiths University (2020).

“I was raised by my working-class grandparents. They spent their life working in the “Fasty Fabric Factory” in Bialystok (Poland). I remember staying with them sometimes at work as a kid when there was no one to look after me at home. I stared for hours at people’s interaction with the machinery they worked on, watching them pressing bright RED, GREEN and BLUE buttons. A strange performative communication between human and machine. It seemed to me that a person had so much power in a single flick of the finger, making the gears of these huge apparatuses keep rolling. My awe for the combination of human and technology also extended to the “togetherness” I felt in the community of workers.”