The Brain - escape. / subtitels: COMFORT ZONE. WHERE IS THE BRAIN?
THERE ARE PLACES WHICH CANNOT BE TALKED DOWN. NOTHING IS SUPERB UNTIL IT BECOMES IMPORTANT.
Collage: paper, 110x80 cm, fragments of father's drawing are: the characters upper left corner and bottom right ; rest of drawings - Iwona
In the age of the society with higher and higher self-esteem, in the age of turbo-fast pace of life but at the same time with the dynamic of the hazards brought by the pandemic, the following questions arise: where do the extremes lead to? Is anxiety teaching us anything? Is the content of normal, daily life the greatest value in the modern society? Where is the brain of today, where is our thinking, where is empathy?
The collages is an attempted dialogue between the two generations of artists: the one of the father and the one of the daughter. Iwona reaches for her father’s selected works, in order to re-communicate him with today’s audience and the newly defined reality. That is why she inserts her own drawings into her father’s works, in response to the themes raised by Marian Siwek several decades ago – themes so valid today, as if taken out from our present life. The collage is like a mirror of our reality and their artistic content resembles a reporter’s record of the latest events.
