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biography

Born in 1989. She has graduated from The Academy of Fine Arts (ASP) in Kraków at the Faculty of Graphic Arts. In 2016 she has received a master’s degree and defended a graduation work titled „The Mirror Keeps No Memories”. She is focused on printmaking in particular etching, drawing and poster design. In her work she looks for connections between humans and nature, between what passes and what remains. Her primary source of inspirations are people’s memories and emotions. She has participated in many exhibitions, among others: The Academy of Fine Arts students exhibition at the Ministry of Science and Higher Education, ASP Studio exhibition „Graphic 3/5”, the best graduation works of ASP exhibition at the Palace of Fine Arts in Kraków and the „Trial Print” exhibition at Re Gallery in MOCAK.

self-commentary

It is a strange and deeply seductive feeling, when I walk into the sea at night. I am knee-deep in the water and when I close my eyes, it feels like the sea waves pull me into the depths. The impression is so powerful that it is hard to believe that I still stay in place. Someone has to hold my hand.

What is hidden in the deepest places is the most magnetic for us. Common sense tells us to stay at the safe shore but we want to find the truth at any coast. So we search for the meaning, we want to know the unknowable.

I tell about returning year by year to the same place by the sea. My works are a story about recurring memories and growing up, about connections between that what is human and nature. About the sound of waves breaking on the shore, in which you can hear something that you miss in your words.

For ages we feel the need to find the names for things around us. So we invent  signs and letters to describe them. This is one of our primary needs. The code which we are learning since childhood is limited. You have to create your own language, sometimes incomprehensible even for you. You have to do it, if you want to express so many things, that you rather feel than see, things about you can think but you cannot tell.

It is impossible to see a lot, when you look only from your own point of view. You cannot even see your whole figure, unless you see its reflection in a mirror. By dint of a mirror you can see what is behind you. It is the only way.

Eternal, invariable  sea can be a mirror for the fading human being. We can find in it an unclear reflection of our souls, emotions and memories. We cannot just look in this mirror and see everything, but if we will try hard, we can find ourselves in it.