The presen­tation brings together the latest photography project from Aneta Grzeszykow­ska (b. 1974) and new sculp­tures by Olaf Brzeski (b. 1975). The common denominator of their works is the exploration of the whim­sical nature of sculp­tural objects – with Grzeszykowska’s use of photography to document ephemeral objects and Brzeski’s reduc­tion of a figure into an illusory, three-​dimensional drawing.

 

Grzeszykow­ska is con­sistent in the way she works with her own image, the iden­tity of a woman-​artist, and various aspects of the body’s decon­struc­tion. Her ‘Selfie’ project is a radical exer­cise in sculp­ture; the artist made accurate models of her own body out of pig­skin and photographed them before they decomposed.

 

Brzeski is the author of airy sculp­tures com­posed of narrow steel pipes which imitate blades of hay. These figures, drawn in mid-​air, refer to the realm of hal­lucination. Uncanny charac­ters con­jured up by the artist have their coun­ter­part in his astonishing methods of wor­king with his material, sub­jec­ting traditional qualities of sculp­ture such as weight, texture and den­sity to reinterpretation.

 

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