A photographic series titled, “It Doesn’t Taste As It Used To” by Polish American artist Aneta Bartos frames her and her father in various domestic and outdoor settings back in the home country. By juxtiposing him with herself in various states of undress in very modest settings using the oddly surreal colouring of the Polaroid she provokes an ambivalent nostalgia of time past, of Poland under Soviet rule, of the idealised poster images of the empowered worker, of a culture in which the long time Roman Catholic Church’s dominant role was replaced by a modern progressive Soviet Communist belief stystem, of an everyday unconscious and unspoken erotic connection between parent and offspring and finally of a vigorous adult female sexuality framed against that of the proud but aged male.
(more images from this series can be found on google.)