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The afternoons were gentle that summer. We did nothing in particular – just stared at each other. Sometimes we tried to crack nuts with our bare hands. We failed repeatedly, but we failed together, and that feeling was enough for us.
It was that summer when the wind decided to walk away from the empty trees that stood near our small house. We used to watch it depart in silence. Then, it felt like we were being left behind, grounded in fear, the same way as the emotion behind Aleksandra’s paintings has its way of getting stuck with the viewer after it shakes our beliefs about life. With bold sincerity, the 33 year old Polish artist manages to steal our sensible gaze. She has the habit of thrusting her personal questions about life into our inner, most intimate parts of ourselves.
photo flickr.com/photos/walisz
photo flickr.com/photos/walisz
Whenever we experience her art, we are summoned to answer questions about sexuality, anguish and fear. Those feelings are transmitted through an inventive points of imagery that melt into powerful statements. Ranging from cats and foxes, all the way to guts and gore, Aleksandra manages to bypass what we would usually see as horror art. Rather then that, she uses depictions of violence with a sense of calmness, thus giving birth to the tragedy of her works. It is the undisclosed absence in our lives that makes us look with suspicion and fear at each other.
photo flickr.com/photos/walisz
photo flickr.com/photos/walisz
Her allegories are sprung within a twofold frame. Balanced between everyday factual elements and reinterpretations of medieval imagery, the paintings merge into a very particular, signature style.
photo flickr.com/photos/walisz
Fresh and provocative, Aleksandra Waliszewska has recently recieved the prestigious ARCO prize for Best Foreign Artist, awarded by the Spanish Association of Art Critics AECA. Her works are currently shown at the Center for Fine Arts Brussels (BOSAR), within the Enfant terrible. La nouvelle affiche polonaise (5.09.13 – 13.10.13) exhibiton. She also has works on display at the Saatchi Online Gallery.
photo flickr.com/photos/walisz
by Andrei Simionescu-Panait
Andrei Simionescu-Panait is a PhD Canditate in Philosophy at the University of Bucharest.
His debut short “Diafan / Lightly” had its international premiere at the Cannes Short Film Corner 2013.
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