Keczupowo
Poland/Belgium
2026
In Keczupowo [Ketchuptown], Natalia Majchrzak explores the complex relationship with her town of birth, Włocławek in Poland – a place she used to visit regularly during her childhood. The heart of the film is based around her ambivalent experience of nostalgia and alienation when being in Włocławek. The deliberate theatricality of the film tears through the veil of magic, highlighting the unstable nature of memory.
The trzepak – a carpet-cleaning rack commonly used in Poland – provides the basis for the installation. Natalia Majchrzak projects her film Keczupowo into the structure and in doing so, an everyday object becomes a window into the past. In her childhood, the trzepak served as a playing tool, a screen on which to project fantastical dreams of the future. Here it serves that same purpose once again; in the same frame she presents her film, in which fiction and reality are interwoven. In this way, Natalia Majchrzak creates a dialogue between past, present and future.
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About the artist
Born in 1998, Natalia Majchrzak is a Polish-Belgian visual artist working with photography, video, and performance. Her work often stems from something intimate, a memory or anecdote, which then becomes a playground where magical microcosms unfold. Fiction and reality intertwine, brush against each other, and question each other.