2015 

sponge recycled, hot glue, cord jute
variable dimensions

“Emocjonalne ugięcie przestrzeni”
[“Emotional deflection of space”]

All-Poland Platform of Academic Cooperation
Centre of Polish Sculpture in Orońsko

curator: Anna Podsiadły

I start from learning. I listen in to the space which determines my activity. It is a brick that becomes the spar triggering it. Wanting to go over a brick wall, I reach out for
a material which is its opposite. It it sponge with its typical features:its softness, possibility of shaping and differentiation of surface.

I treat the dimensions of the coach house as a template and starting point for building a structure which will reshape this place. It will disturb the existing order and break the symmetry which evolves into an organic form, looking for its own way. Just like sthenic and asthenic emotions steer our behavior, such is the way of using matter in particular steps
I adopted.

Lifting, taking down, various levels of tension. Besides: density, depth, strength, control - they all translate into a form.

I saturate the unknown history of the acquired material with my own emotion, trying to evoke it in the viewer. Will it be successful?


CONSONANS

2016

sponge recycled, hot glue
width: 97 cm, other dimensions are dependent on the exposure

“Lubię cukierki, nawet kiedy smakują jak kamyki”
[“I like sweets, even when they taste like pebbles”]
Ksiągarnia/Wystawa, Krakow

curators: Vera Zalutskaya, Piotr Policht, Agata Jabłońska, 
	     Anna Gil, Marta Kuźmińska

Rolled sponge balot consists of a relief modules, which in their dimensions are based on real dimensions side face (one side of the brick). Glued together with shorter side reach stripes approx. 35 meters, which in turn create pavement width approx. 97 cm. The color depends on the degree 
of soiling or the original shade of recycled upholstery sponge.

Through this realization I wanted to catch the excess, collect, amass, organize, and give a new meaning to what human being has abandoned and treated as waste. The object follows from 
a deep need to get order in private space, as well as social.

EXPOSURE - Belot partially developed
	
The installation, like a red carpet unfolds before the viewer. He moves about the way of life, join to the unknown path, follow it along, measuring the obstacles and opportunities to explore the further potential. The confrontation with the viewer, developed fragment is an invitation to discover its individual components.
I care for unique experience of the matter, on re-contact with her and getting to know her again.
	
I put the question: where are we going [in this way]? Are the goal important? Is the end, the point where we want to stay? Where is the end of the search? E.t.c.

ASPECT

Now or never

2016

performance, 2,5h 
from A: Studio, ul. Długa 54/4
to point B: Księgarnia/Wystawa, ul. Józefińska 9
Krakow

Performence is an integral part of the installation “Aspect”, consisted of turning rolled sponges for exhibition space. 
I wanted to treat the bale as a “prop” to express the artist’s effort, which makes creating challenges, which often is not able alone to bear.

TO PAVE THE WAY

2016

performance, 2,5h 
from A: Studio, ul. Długa 54/4
to point B: Księgarnia/Wystawa, ul. Józefińska 9
Krakow

Performence is an integral part of the installation “Stadium”, consisted of turning rolled sponges for exhibition space. 
I wanted to treat the bale as a “prop” to express the artist’s effort, which makes creating challenges, which often is not able alone to bear.

2015

sponge recycled, upholstery springs, 4 mirrors (50x50cm)
(2x) 427x50x50cm

Installation about toil to build, about the apparent stability, about creation of the impossible and the search order. 
At the same time the installation becomes a support in making decisions.

From the formal point of view, we are dealing with two pillars made of the components of the couch - foam and upholstery springs. Inside are mirrors (at the base and finial) indicating the infinity, limitless possibilities action.

freeSTANDING

2019

recycled paper, mirror, plexiglass, shredder

solo exhibition at the Gallery Aneks
at the Contemporary Art Gallery in Opole

curator: Agnieszka Dela-Kropiowska

The project is realized in the Annex Gallery at the Contemporary Art Gallery in Opole (PL), and it concerned the ordering of reality, the accumulation of experience and was an encouragement to say goodbye to the past.
The title "When A New Day Comes" is for me like the sunrise that gives us a chance to start our lives anew. Light gives hope and scares away all fears. A new day is a fresh perspective and an opportunity to become a better person.

I have arranged the exhibition with several elements. The first was a fragment of a work from 2016 entitled "Harvesting", which consisted of strips of paper combined in the form of a tornado.
This work was created at a time when it was difficult for me to accept the fact that I should throw the unsuccessful drawing works into the garbage. I decided to save the scratched sheets of paper, processed them in such a way that they could constitute a material for further work. And so the paper tornado harvested the earlier actions and became a new beginning.

The culmination of this fragment was a "rain" of stripes hanging from the ceiling, reminiscent of the recesses of our subconsciousness, in which for years we build a structure / destructive tissue that causes us a feeling of anxiety and discomfort.

The whole thing is in grays with a predominance of white, against the background of two white walls and the contrasting black surfaces of the ceiling and one of the walls.

At the base of this tornado, on the floor, I placed a mirror (30 cm in diameter) in which the entire paper phenomenon was reflected, creating a parallel reality - maybe a better world?

The second element of the exhibition was a cuboid made of plexiglass with an integrated shredder, into which each of the inhabitants of Opole could "throw" their unwanted documents and thus throw off the ballast of past matters, and thus feel better.



When a new day comes

Support

2016

recycled paper, 0.6mm wide strips
maximum height up to 4m
OSB board: 1,5x30x30cm

An integral part of education in the artistic faculties is developing manual skills, including drawing skills. A pile of sheets of paper mounts up at breakneck pace until the Art Portfolio Case stops closing. The acquired skills are our value and the paper is their document. But not every attempt is worth 
of exposure.

This work was created at a time when it was difficult for me to accept the fact that I should throw the unsuccessful drawing work into the garbage. I decided to save the scratched sheets of paper. Having at my disposal a pile of unsuccessful drawing works in the traditional 100x70cm and 50x70cm format, I subjected them to the mechanical action of a shredder, and then joined the strips into one whole again.

The paper tornado harvested the earlier actions and became a new beginning. The white plane is marked by the tool, it begins to accumulate many shades of gray on its surface, which is a wealth.

It is an allegory of a life full of thoughts, feelings and experiences that leave an indelible mark on us.

Harvesting

2019

glued recycled paper, plaster
(2x) ok. 21x16x16cm

At the base there is a plaster hemisphere, with strips of paper on it, making a path full of various experiences, including unpleasant and painful ones. Two forms, supposedly similar but different from each other, topped with thin, delicate scraps of paper emerging from the top of the "mountain" evoke a volcanic eruption.

In July 2019, I weaned my almost two-year-old son from the breast. It was a very emotional and traumatic experience for me. On the one hand, I could not imagine not to breastfeed, and on the other hand, this time was so long that from week to week I felt how much effort it cost me and how it negatively affects my daily functioning and taking care of my son. Hence the appearance of blood red as a symbol of suffering. And since I never lacked breast milk, it even "gushed" from my breasts in excessive amounts, this prompted me to present this topic in such a way.

An important aspect of my creative work is the use of found materials, in this case they are cardboard sheets thrown away by students, previously serving as a base for acquiring drawing skills, here they became the base material for creating sculptural objects.


Eruption

2019

glued recycled paper, wood, plaster
41,5x28x18cm; 38x18x18cm; 38x22x18cm

This work is a continuation of the formal assumptions that accompany me during the implementation of my diploma thesis at the Department of Sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow, where the inspiration was the sunrise seen from the top of the mountain.

The hemisphere’s form symbolizes the Sun, which is the basis / beginning, gives hope and with its energy lifts the burden of many things.

Another block refers to climbing, long and arduous, which circles in the direction of the summit, and thus reduces our effort when we are close to reaching the goal. On the other hand, it can be concluded that this is the return path, because the starting point of my actions with the paper is at the top and spreads towards the base creating the illusion of a “never-ending” journey.

Then the wooden cylinder connects two spheres, the earthly one with the spiritual one, which is often a piece of white paper, and sometimes it brings pain and suffering.

The leading material I used here comes with a second-hand, which is important from the point of view of my artistic practice. In the former form, this paper was the foundation for student drawing exercises, and thus brings with it some baggage of experience.

Meridians

2017

styrofoam coated with glue, pine shaft, fiberglass mesh, 
card from the technical block

44 objects with the following parameters:

(18x) H 126.5cm, Ø 30cm, white flag: A4 size
(18x) H 159cm, Ø 40cm, (17x) white flags + 1 black: 
	 format 25x36cm
(8x) H 184,5cm, Ø 50cm, white flag: A3 size

The starting point was a personal tragedy and the related willingness to evoke the feeling that accompanied common meetings with a deceased friend. In this respect, the installation is of a memorative nature. In addition, it commemorates other Polish soldiers who died during peace missions in Afghanistan until 2014.

The project includes 44 spatial objects made on three different scales. Their construction was based on basic geometrical shapes arranged vertically. At the base there is a half of the ball that connects to the cylinder, which in turn supports the cone and is crowned with a rectangular prism. The technical facilities of the facilities allow for the swinging movement and prevent them from falling down. It is to remind you that even if we stand at one point, we have unlimited possibilities of action. And maybe all you need to do is find the right “ground” to not only sway around the world, but also be able to follow the chosen direction.

The inspiration for formal solutions was the Sunrise seen from the top of the mountain. It is there that the feeling that accompanies the encounter with the other person is revived, the turning point, when the darkness turns into a day and the hope for a better time returns.

The experience of the feeling of warmth and intimacy was an end in itself, now the Sunrise is the basis for further development and growth on its surface.

Today I try to calm down the past in order to give the opportunity of the present and to open the door to the unknown. Here the past serves the present and announces the future. So I close the memories in the sarcophagus of memory and flow forward. I allow the sun to brighten my path, providing a sense of security.

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