Dorota Jurczak
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15 Oct 2016 - 07 Jan 2017
DOROTA JURCZAK
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15 October 2016 - 7 January 2017
Curator: Miguel Wandschneider
This exhibition is a remake of the one that during the summer introduced us to the eccentric and fascinating work of Dorota Jurczak (Warsaw, 1978). Until her solo exhibition at the Piktogram Gallery, in Warsaw, in autumn 2015, the work of Dorota Jurczak was still practically unknown in her country of origin. The artist has lived, worked and exhibited outside Poland since 1999. Over the years, Dorota Jurczak has gradually come to use, and expand upon, a repertoire of motifs, such as birds, feathers, candles and the smoke rising from them, cigarettes, excrement, beings with multiple heads (sometimes evoking the archetype of Medusa), the profile of a head with two faces, or matches. By combining these elements, the artist composes a gallery of unusual or enigmatic portraits: for example, those of animal creatures that seem to be the result of genetic mutations and composite figures that lie somewhere between human and animal, or between human and inanimate. Some of these works depict mournful and macabre situations, a kind of theatre of cruelty, ruled by the laws of violence and dominance over other species. Over the years, however, one can note in her work both a greater pacification of her always intriguing iconography and imaginary and a greater refinement in formal and expressive terms.
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15 October 2016 - 7 January 2017
Curator: Miguel Wandschneider
This exhibition is a remake of the one that during the summer introduced us to the eccentric and fascinating work of Dorota Jurczak (Warsaw, 1978). Until her solo exhibition at the Piktogram Gallery, in Warsaw, in autumn 2015, the work of Dorota Jurczak was still practically unknown in her country of origin. The artist has lived, worked and exhibited outside Poland since 1999. Over the years, Dorota Jurczak has gradually come to use, and expand upon, a repertoire of motifs, such as birds, feathers, candles and the smoke rising from them, cigarettes, excrement, beings with multiple heads (sometimes evoking the archetype of Medusa), the profile of a head with two faces, or matches. By combining these elements, the artist composes a gallery of unusual or enigmatic portraits: for example, those of animal creatures that seem to be the result of genetic mutations and composite figures that lie somewhere between human and animal, or between human and inanimate. Some of these works depict mournful and macabre situations, a kind of theatre of cruelty, ruled by the laws of violence and dominance over other species. Over the years, however, one can note in her work both a greater pacification of her always intriguing iconography and imaginary and a greater refinement in formal and expressive terms.