Ascension Painting

Paulina Penc – multimedia artist, jazz- experimental vocalist, artivist, feminist, activist for equal women’s rights. Born in 1980 in Częstochowa, Poland. She received her MFA with honors from the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, Poland in Leon Tarasewicz Studio. Laureate of the Visual Spa 2016. She explores socio-cultural identity, spirituality, sexual politics, social media, feminist threads and femininity, referring to her strength, intuition and emotional intelligence. She adresses the theme of life and death based on shamanism and own experiences. She questions the systemic approach to world order. She practices post-apocalyptic DJing, mixing a multitude of symbols. She expresses her ideas in a cleansing, trance-like state both in visual arts and in music. In her paintings she refers i.a. to cultural changes, personality disorders associated with the virtual world and artificial intelligence .“The interface has a big influence on the way people communicate. A completely new poetics is emerging. We are organisms connected to a computer. Moreover, we live in a time of post-truth” – says the artist. As a jazz- experimental vocalist, she undermines a traditionally understood musical work with its closed form and specific notation. The key elements of her vocal are: swing, syncopation, groove, diddle. Paulina together with Krystian Batyjewski co-create the duo passionate about research on the phenomenon of sound synergy in changing environmental conditions. As the “Stardust and the water” they come into resonance with the artificial and natural environment and mixing up the received experiences. Her strong and clear voice moves the truly existential note of the listener. Paulina has done a series of lectures about art, including “Art from the perspective of a multimedia artist” at the Center for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle. As an activist, she is a co-founder of the Surwiwalki group on behalf of the Women’s Rights Center in Warsaw, co-author of the Surwiwalek Manifesto, and author of the page Stop violence in a relationship. Her paintings are in the collections of Waldorf Astoria in California and Bristol Busko- Zdrój.