My works are painted in tempera on wood and gilt with gold leaf, a classic European technique. I’ve been using European gold leaf but my interest in gold stems from the works of the Japanese Rinpa school.

Agatowska takes existing sculptures and subjects them to modifications to create their surprising successive transformations. Initially, she used the camera obscura in these experiments, then applied interference with television signal, and nowadays she relies on digital processing.

Jin, jiyan, azadî is a well-known Kurdish slogan applied especially by Kurds in Turkey and Syria to promote Kurdish women’s military struggle as well as political and social participation in the societies of Kurdistan which is today a part of Turkey, Syria, Iraq and Iran.