They were flammable, oil on linen, 130 x 150 cm, 2019

They were flammable is painted from a photograph of a burning barn and addresses the Jedwabne pogrom, in which a group of Polish inhabitants cornered their neighbours from the Jewish minority into a barn and set it on fire before the Wehrmacht took control over the town in July 1941. The embedded sentence, which is same with the title, is paraphrased from a wall tag painted in 2011, shortly after the 70th anniversary and 10 years after the President of Poland, Aleksander Kwasniewski, apologized for the pogrom.