Apr 2006
Katarzyna Gajewska
Dublin, Ireland
http://www.katarinagajewska.com
katarinartist@gmail.com
ARTIST STATEMENT
My works are a mosaic of mixed media: photography, drawing, painting, performance, photomontages, and collages all in a traditional and digital integration. The most intimate form of my expression are paintings – art of action and graphic design mixed with photography- specific collage of irony, perceiving the reality, my rebel. My paintings evolve organically from life's everyday glances. Rather than trying to force my will on them, I give them total control. Each layer determines and guides the next. My paintings, my photographs, also my digital works are a dialogue between giving and taking. I don't want to sign the work until it looks like it has been lived on, until I have violated the open white space and created something that can become independent of me and fend for itself. My works and research explore conceptual relations between cognitive processes, languages and cultures, as well as existentialism and perceived reality, in which an infinite human imagination constructs and distorts an existence into an illusion of reality.
