Buczkowska expresses herself in various media: drawing, painting, photography, installation. Using metaphors, she explores topics related to the perception of corporeality. Buczkowska is a graduate of the Sculpture Department, Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw (2003), and of Gender Studies at Warsaw University (2002). In 2003-2004, she was a resident at the prestigious Centre National des Arts Plastiques Villa Arson, Nice. Selected individual exhibitions: Żak Gallery, Berlin, (2007); CRAC Sete, France (2008); Czarna Gallery, Warsaw (2008, 2011); Liverpool Biennial (2009); BWA Katowice (2010); Studio Gallery, Warsaw (2011); Skulpturenmuseum, Marl (2012); CCA Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw (2012). Selected group exhibitions: Journey around the Skull, CCA Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw (2010); Paris Photo, France (2010); Biennale of Contemporary Sculpture, Australia (2011); curated by_vienna 2011, Stainek Gallery, Vienna; WANI, Fondation Paul Ricard de Paris, France (2011); No, no, I hardly ever miss a show, Zachęta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw (2012). Works in collections: Marl Sculpture Museum; The Vienna Collection; MoBY Museum, Tel Aviv; Villa Arson, Nice.
2012
triptych, collage of anonymous vintage photographs,
composition size 24 x 46 cm,
signature on the front of the mat, date and description on the reverse of the frame,
unique object
The work comes from the artist`s new series of photographic collages entitled One Year in a Sanatorium. Individual images correspond to twelve months spent in a sanatorium, which can be understood in two ways: metaphorically, as a recess in our imagination created by literary associations or a private space where we indulge in an illness, or in very literal and real terms. A key point here is the time construct - a recollection suspended between an actual event and a vision of the mind. Illness seems to be presented here as an experience which, acting in alliance with the body, completely overcomes the mind and its past.
Buczkowska expresses herself in various media: drawing, painting, photography, installation. Using metaphors, she explores topics related to the perception of corporeality. Buczkowska is a graduate of the Sculpture Department, Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw (2003), and of Gender Studies at Warsaw University (2002). In 2003-2004, she was a resident at the prestigious Centre National des Arts Plastiques Villa Arson, Nice. Selected individual exhibitions: Żak Gallery, Berlin, (2007); CRAC Sete, France (2008); Czarna Gallery, Warsaw (2008, 2011); Liverpool Biennial (2009); BWA Katowice (2010); Studio Gallery, Warsaw (2011); Skulpturenmuseum, Marl (2012); CCA Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw (2012). Selected group exhibitions: Journey around the Skull, CCA Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw (2010); Paris Photo, France (2010); Biennale of Contemporary Sculpture, Australia (2011); curated by_vienna 2011, Stainek Gallery, Vienna; WANI, Fondation Paul Ricard de Paris, France (2011); No, no, I hardly ever miss a show, Zachęta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw (2012). Works in collections: Marl Sculpture Museum; The Vienna Collection; MoBY Museum, Tel Aviv; Villa Arson, Nice.