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Trying to mend wounds

The leit­motif of Paulina Stasik’s pain­tings is invariably bodies—levitating, cap­tured in timeless lethargy—but also the coating of the body itself: the skin, which here func­tions as a kind of living shroud. The unique, dream­like atmosphere of these canvases arises from mythological and fairy-​tale inspirations.

Puppet show

The leit­motif of Paulina Stasik’s pain­tings is invariably bodies—levitating, cap­tured in timeless lethargy—but also the coating of the body itself: the skin, which here func­tions as a kind of living shroud. The unique, dream­like atmosphere of these canvases arises from mythological and fairy-​tale inspirations.

Pretending to be invisible

 Stasik evokes mythical Titans and Atlases in female form, but also images tied to children’s fan­tasies or even puppet theatre. The allusion to the sphere of myth, proto-​spirituality and pan­sexuality is also the artist’s response to the con­tem­porary fate of the world, saturated with apocalyp­tic prophecies, visions of climate disaster and war­time chaos.

Uplift

Stasik evokes mythical Titans and Atlases in female form, but also images tied to children’s fan­tasies or even puppet theatre. The allusion to the sphere of myth, proto-​spirituality and pan­sexuality is also the artist’s response to the con­tem­porary fate of the world, saturated with apocalyp­tic prophecies, visions of climate disaster and war­time chaos.

Performance

The displayed situation may bare resem­blance to a moment of suspen­sion, a pause in a dance, an artful balance over the edge due to the joint bodies, a liminal point right before cul­mination, i.e. the col­lapse of the composition.

Burning up

A depic­tion of a woman, from whose belly radiates with pink and orange light while her womb emits smoke.

Wishful Thinker

The atmosphere in the pain­ting is idyl­lic, and the clothes – body, are simply a carefree, flying cloud in the mist.

Whisperer

The pain­ting belongs to a cycle of a con­tinuous motif of miniature creatures, which are per­sonifications of various emotional states and intentions.

Remains III

The body, in this case, is a hybrid of fabric and humans flesh, endowed with new qualities.

Greetings from Utopia

The pain­ting depicts a girl, who, in a trium­phant pose, holds a mask – her own skin, i.e. a sheath, which uncovers, quite literally, her true colours.

Storm Girl

The body func­tions here as a metaphor attesting to the human com­plexity and its diverse emotional states, which sub­sequen­tly emerge on the sur­face of its flesh.

Shamaness II

The pain­ting is a con­tinuation of the artist’s exploration of the female body.

Remains II

The pain­ting depicts frag­ments of a female body, neatly laid on a pedestal, what endows it with a sculp­tural resemblance.

Surge II

The canvas is a part of a con­tinuous series of divagations regar­ding the body and its fragmentation.

Inseparability

The body here is a sub­ject of frag­men­tation, while the created situations – of derealisation.

Kiss

The mul­tiplication of eyes, lips and ears con­stitutes a begin­ning of the artist’s defor­mation experiments.