Olivia Mròz

Master of Contemporary Art

My work this year is centred around transgenerational trauma and parts psychology. Parts psychology, which is also known as parts-work-therapy, is achieving trauma resolution by recognising disowned parts, usually younger parts and subpersonalities, and giving these parts a voice.

For me this work has multiple, repetitive, personal and domestic narratives running through it. Each aspect layers on top of the next. These all live within the separate spaces I activate when I install this work in my home and exhibition spaces.

Memory, dissociation, identity, the Mother, Little Olivia, Baba Yaga, The Catholic Church, and my Polish background take up room within this work.