bez tytułu (Untitled), acrylic on canvas, 100x150cm, 2019.
This painting is part of a series of works dealing with visual keepsakes -images particularly important to people, serving as a kind of memory prosthesis intended to record the presence of people, places, or objects. Visual keepsakes may include photographs, films, and also, I believe, screenshots - photographs of our digital life - as well as other types of digital materials. Keepsakes deteriorate regardless of the medium on which they are stored, what I aimed to depict in the painting
This painting is part of a series of works dealing with visual keepsakes, that is, images particularly important to people, serving as a kind of memory prosthesis intended to record the presence of people, places, or objects. Visual keepsakes may include photographs, films, and also, I believe, screenshots - photographs of our digital life - as well as other types of digital materials. Keepsakes deteriorate regardless of the medium on which they are stored, what I aimed to depict in the painting
bez tytułu (Untitled), acrylic on canvas, 100x150cm, 2019.
This painting is part of a series of works dealing with visual keepsakes -images particularly important to people, serving as a kind of memory prosthesis intended to record the presence of people, places, or objects. Visual keepsakes may include photographs, films, and also, I believe, screenshots - photographs of our digital life - as well as other types of digital materials. Keepsakes deteriorate regardless of the medium on which they are stored, what I aimed to depict in the painting
bez tytułu (Untitled), acrylic on canvas, 100x150cm, 2019.
This painting is part of a series of works dealing with visual keepsakes, that is, images particularly important to people, serving as a kind of memory prosthesis intended to record the presence of people, places, or objects. Visual keepsakes may include photographs, films, and also, I believe, screenshots - photographs of our digital life - as well as other types of digital materials. Keepsakes deteriorate regardless of the medium on which they are stored, what I aimed to depict in the painting
Papierosy (Cigarettes), 3 x 10x10cm, acrylic on cardboard, 2021.
Last series of small works from the online plein air with the theme "encounter." In this part of the series, I analyzed a pack of cigarettes I found in the apartment I was staying in at the time.
In the second photo — my plein air setup in the corner of the room with raccoons poster.
Przestrzeń I (Space I), acrylic on cardboard, 30×30cm, 2021.
I'm beginning to publish a new series "Spotkanie" (Meeting) that was created around the same time as some of the paintings from "Digital Practices of Avoiding Painting." This series came to life during an online plein air painting session held in the pandemic era. Here’s the description of the series, written while I was working on the pieces: "A meeting is a step toward something unknown. My everyday life — especially during the pandemic — takes place in a room in a countryside house, a space I don’t share with anyone. It’s a collection of objects only I understand, and a set of solitary rituals I perform in this space.
During this plein air session, I’m staying in Wrocław — and I’m sharing that everyday life and space. I’m encountering not just another person, but, more importantly, their space, their daily rituals, objects, and stories — all within a setting removed from the city noise, suspended somehow above it, slightly beyond the boundaries of my own daily reality.
One of the final works from my series "Digital Practices of Avoiding Painting." I modeled the characters, and the wireframe view always seemed interesting to me. The characters I created felt incredibly inert, defenseless, and hollow inside.
Kontynuacja wielowiekowej tradycji malarstwa w przedstawianiu kobiecego ciała (w GTA) (The continuation of the centuries-old tradition of painting in depicting the female body (in GTA)), acrylic on canvas, 50 × 70 cm, 2022.
I think the title describes this painting well. I painted it based on a screenshot from GTA: San Andreas, which I took using the in-game camera while playing GTA as a child. Even back then, I had strange feelings about all of this.