BWA Contemporary Art Gallery in Katowice

‘An intense, spiritual story about her (our) losing the way within herself (ourselves) pervades Joanna Piech's black and white linocuts. A story about time that exists exclusively at the very moment, though it embraces all times. Thanks to this, only n o w exists. This man, whose blurred silhouette can hardly be seen in her pictures, this figure, this woman, this we, emerges to us as if from the deepest recesses, the background of mind. And this person is a part of the background since nothing can exist separately there. Just as there is the link between existence and the house that it once occupied, vigilance and a dream, a view of the inside of a structure and its departure to the regions not contaminated with any matter. Joanna Piech's, this subtle and expressive poetess of graphics, endlessly cares about the metaphoric dimmension of her art. She cherishes the secrecy, intimacy and ambiguity of messages and moods. As if she literally felt the state when we know for sure that dream and we are of the same elements / and brief is our existence and wrapped in a dream /Shakespeare, Tempest/’
Maciej M. Szczawiński — fragment

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