Political issues are at the forefront of Agnieszka Pilat's work. Influenced by Poland's political reconstruction which took place after the fall of the Berlin Wall, she uses inanimate objects as a metaphor for time. She witnessed Poland change from a Soviet-style government to a much needed democratic society. Pilat made it her life's goal to expose the corrupt political system that she experienced as a child. "I don't paint people. I paint time. Time is our most precious commodity. It defines who we are. To capture the concept of time, I place my subjects on the intersection of the present and the past: lives fully lived and dreams already dreamt... the people who "are", not the ones who will "become", says Pilat.