Mirjam Pajakowski's artistic practice encompasses sculpture, installation, painting and drawing. Her work focuses on transience and the tension between beginning and end, birth and death of material and form—themes that become apparent in the various stages of development of her works. Her work primarily follows a transformative approach. A central role is played by casts of her own body, which are intended less as anatomically correct images and more as a metaphorical process of moulting. The peeling, scraping, and stripping away of "old skin" becomes a symbol of change, adaptation, and transition—between inside and outside, intimacy and visibility. Pajakowski deals with her own vulnerability and the search for a new balance. The body becomes a resonance chamber that reflects personal processes of change. Her work explores the subtle connections between body and environment—between humans and nature, between private memories and social phenomena. She continuously searches for an artistic language that touches on both personal and universal questions while dissolving the boundaries between these levels. Above all, her work revolves around a very elementary motif: the search for authenticity.