27.06–7.09.2019
SIC! gallery BWA Wrocław
pl. Kościuszki 9/10
design: Łukasz Paluch
Almost six years after the last exhibition at the SIC! BWA Wrocław Gallery, Monika Patuszyńska returns with a project in which she tells stories about relationships, memory and assembling fragments into complex constructions.
The designer is a provocateur addicted to porcelain, playing freely with conventions and forms. The objects that she creates feature familiar elements that she strips of their functions, arranges into new configurations and gives them a completely new role to play. Her artworks are collages of elements borrowed from everyday life and her own experience gained while working in new places and cultures, transformed by the artist, a creator-nomad.
In the new exhibition at the SIC! BWA Wrocław, the artist has decided to explore the history of her family. She looks into the ways of conveying grief, family narratives, proportions of facts and inventions, misrepresentations and embellishing. The resulting works do not recreate this story in any literal sense; Patuszyńska is not looking for historical truth. She rather leans towards personal history, as well as the issues of inheritance, relationships and memory. At the same time, she refers to the themes she has touched upon in her earlier projects, such as the study of the line between the unique and the mass, the identity of places and the passing of values. She also examines her creative process and fascination with porcelain. We will see works created as a result of experiments. It is worth noting that Patuszyńska’s artistic strategy resembles a process of inheritance, in which seemingly incompatible features or elements can create successful organic compounds and relationships.
durator: Joanna Kobyłt
visual identification: Łukasz Paluch
source: BWA Wrocław
