‘No One Has Dreams Like This’ — Katarzyna Szymkiewicz in small space
We kindly invite you to the opening of the exhibition 18th May, 2018 at 6 pm. Free entry. Join us!
Katarzyna Szymkiewicz has come up with forms that nicely fill the space, submitting themselves to the sequential process of unpacking and sorting, as if making themselves at home in a hotel room. Her structures are wiggling about in the gallery rooms, ready to take over even bigger space, ready to be cloned. As part of the ever-changing painting art, they resemble a self-assertive picture that has escaped from the frame, to free itself from isolationist discourses, spilling off the canvas and onto the wall around it, and then further — onto the surroundings, blending with the reality and turning art into a tool that can fix the world.
The artist has juxtaposed objects that are intertwined through subtle connections, forming a unity, a temporary body that goes beyond the dichotomies of the interior versus exterior. This structure is based on osmosis, as well as on the potential interchangeability of its constituents. The configuration seen by the audience is one possibility of many. It is a modifiable arrangement of shapes that invites one to play with it.
Notched forms and their phantom shadows look like apparatuses that shred and scrape gallery space into parts. And yet, owing to this, the exhibition – just like ancient gods — can assume various shapes and identities, to avoid immutability, stagnation and the inherent doom. It has become a dissolved, skinned body, geometrical Marsyas, not bound by any borders, stretchy and open to colonization; a body that flows through different channels, has no centre, is widely dispersed.
Curator: Marta Lisok
