Perlak's background is in Philosophy, which she studied in Poland and Fine Art Media that she has studied in the UK (Camberwell College of Arts and Slade School of Fine Art). She has exhibited widely in the UK and internationally, with exhibitions and screenings at institutions including the Victoria & Albert Museum (London), Whitechapel Gallery (London), Diaspora Pavilion at the 57th Venice Biennale, Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art (NYC), ONE Archives (LA), Liverpool Biennial, Detroit Art Week, and many others. Her work has been acquired by the Arts Council Collection.
About the Film
Commissioned for Liverpool Biennial 2025 (BEDROCK), Set within the decaying opulence of the Adelphi Hotel, this film inhabits a site dense with memory, fantasy, and unresolved histories. Once a destination for wealthy travellers, the hotel’s deteriorating interiors now fuel legends and myths. Through a non-linear, dreamlike structure shaped by repetition and disorientation, the film draws on the affective language of horror to explore queer becoming under conditions of precarity. The Adelphi is reimagined as a haunted architecture where desire lingers, bodies shift, and identities remain unstable, allowing decay, monstrosity, and transformation to become sites of intimacy, resistance, and possibility.
