For her exhibition at Karlin Studios, Gizela Mickiewicz creates new series of objects made of stone/concrete and chemical composition, which slowly destroy what seamed to be the final shape of the sculptures. With this series, the artist not only exposes errors and defects but exposes also loss as part of the work. Mickiewicz is interested in elements that extend beyond the walls of the gallery, which are not physically present or have their representation in the form of an artistic object. This is primarily the attention and memory of the viewer and the distance of time and space.
Gizela Mickiewicz lives and works in Warsaw, Poland; Graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts in Poznań. In her artistic practice she uses a variety of media and forms, including sculpture, installation, drawing. In one of her last sculptural series, the artist works on performative sculptures. The main idea of the series is to construct short-lived installation, the shape of which could make an impression of a finished work, and to prepare a scenario, a choreography for its decay. The initial sculpture is precisely sculpted, artist imposes her own order on materiality, but once the process of decay starts, sculpture is not fully under artist’s control, it is subject to its own, natural order. The artist treats all stages of realisation as a one sculpture in the process, the final outcome of which are planned ruins. “Mickiewicz is interested in elements that extend beyond the walls of the gallery, which are not physically present, or have their representation in the form of an artistic object. This is primarily the attention and memory of the viewer and the distance of time and space”.

Courtesy of the artist and FUTURA