Sylwia Szczębara Teeth, combs, blades
supervisor:
prof. Krzysztof Tomalski
Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow
Faculty of Graphics
Faculty of Graphics
biography
In 2019 she graduated from graphic arts at the Academy of fine arts in Cracow. She finished her master’s in copperplate engraving studio under the watchful eye of prof. Krzysztof Tomalski. In 2020 she finished the pedagogical study at the same university. As an artist, she asks herself a question about the identity of a human being. She draws inspiration from the rural environment she comes from. Nature is also her main inspiration; its expression, rhythm, and multiplicity of structures.
self-commentary
Through my series of artworks “Teeth, combs, blades” I tried to express the situations observed in my own place of living. The image of a village in a form which I remembered from my childhood simply disappears, submits to the rapid changes. The vibrant country courtyards are now often the ruins of past life, full of agricultural machinery and other tools cyclically used before. In my imagination, all those things become important relics. I’m inspired by them and they are a starting point for the creating of synthetic forms for me. In these technologically advanced times which we live in all those old and simple agricultural things strongly scope my attention and give an idea of special unity and bond with a man from past times. Maybe that’s why by analyzing and later on processing those agricultural tools I give them a new life, resurrect a vanishing world and people which I recall so well.
