Porcelain bas-relief
58 x 58 cm
Engobes, mdf board, acrylic paint.
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BIO
Potter. Visual artist, designer and art doctor. Body knowledge acquired through direct contact with material is central to her art and design practice.
She combines art and design. Her response to the escalating chaos of consumption is to incorporate a non-anthropocentric perspective into the human relationship with the world. A fan of plants and barter.
She graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Wroclaw, Poland, and the Royal College of Art in London.
She is the winner of the Audience Award of the 18th Survival Art Review (2021), Franz Award (2019), Mazda Design Award (2018), Gazeta Wyborcza WARTO Award (2017) and British Glass Biennale (2015), among others. She has received scholarships from the Young Poland program and the J. Grotowski scholarship, among others.
Her works are part of the art and design collections of the National Museum in Cracow, the art collection of the European Hotel, and the Shanghai Museum of Glass, among others.
Over the years, her products have been featured at the Barbican Center and TATE Modern in London, among others. She has participated in over 100 exhibitions, including in the UK, Denmark, Ireland, Korea, Germany, Azerbaijan, Sweden, Finland, China, and Brazil.
The Body project takes me down a winding road - a statement from the artist:
"This project talks about the importance of embodied knowledge which is one of the main threads of my creative work. It is a kind of knowledge that is characteristic of artisans and women, groups that still have to fight for their rightful place in patriarchal reality. The purpose of the series titled The Body Leads Me Down a Winding Road is, through the use of vivid colors, to symbolically show the power that knowledge from our bodies has.
Formally, the porcelain shapes are reminiscent of 13th century pot tiles produced by potters in Western Europe. They are a tribute to that moment in the history of pottery (as indicated by archaeological sources) when the artisan managed to clearly go beyond the pattern of the vessel, using individual creation, modifying the form and changing its use.
Embodied knowledge, which cannot be easily verbalized, is characterized by such slogans as: " I intuitively feel it," " I have a hunch," "I feel it in my body.".... It is acquired through the physical movement of our bodies, hours of practice, but also by observing others at work and sharing experiences.
Intense colors are, in this series of radical pottery, an outward, symbolic representation of embodied knowledge: flows, intuition, hunches, feeling in the body, emotionality. The frequent blending and overlapping of colors reflects the importance of diversity of experience. And the color-intensive frames that are an integral part of the work are an additional reinforcement of the integrity of this 'multicolor'/multifaceted experience."
