Born in Poland (2004), Wojtal's practice is guided by photographs found within family archives, exploring the delicate tension between love and grief; two themes intrinsically intertwined and existing alongside one another. 
  
The Photograph holds an innate sense of vulnerability, one that comes from seeing our relatives, or even strangers, at an age that mirrors our own. Time becomes piercingly tangible, as though The Photograph were its purest representation. Punctum. We are then confronted not only with their fragile mortality, but with our own, experiencing humanity in its entirety all in one moment: life and death, ‘desire and mourning’. 
  
Working across drawing and sculpture, Wojtal creates material elegies for memory, grief and longing. Cracked, chipping plaster and unset charcoal mirror the persistent nature of time and the inevitability of deterioration, while cold metal explores the tension between loss and desire. Her works gradually fracture and fade, allowing grief to exist without narrative resolution.