I was born in Warsaw. I am a visual artist and practices graphics, painting, photography and illustration. In 1998-2003 I studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw at the Faculty of Graphic Arts, obtained my diploma with distinction...
Read MoreI was born in Warsaw. I am a visual artist and practices graphics, painting, photography and illustration. In 1998-2003 I studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw at the Faculty of Graphic Arts, obtained my diploma with distinction for a series of lithographic works entitled “My bestiary” in the Lithography Studio.
As a child, I used to peregrinate around a Warsaw block of flats looking from a distance at all the seemingly identical windows. I was irritated by the presence of curtains, which prevented me from seeing inside. In today's world, I notice paradoxically it is the other way round, one would like to put a kind of filter-curtain in the windows again, so as not to reveal what, with a bit of good taste, should be covered up. But it's a bit like running away - the condition for running away is not the presence of someone following or following someone, but the mere conviction that one is being chased, which then generates movement and running away. We can run away from a non-existent enemy, and the fact of its non-existence does not make our fear any less.
My migration to art had nothing picturesque or violent about it. Rather, it resembled the act of appropriating a certain fragment of a shared space, a manifestation of the desperation of a homeless person who never and nowhere feels ‘at home’, who is looking for his own place and suddenly finds the right ‘angle’ and acquires property rights through a state of long-term incumbency.
