Shielding Painting

Visual artist. Painting and photography. Born in 1981, Minsk Mazowiecki, Poland. Lives and works near Warsaw,PL. Joanna Mlącka is a painter and a photographer. Her artworks are inspired by the real world from which she takes the shapes of objects and floral elements. These objects sometimes belong to the world of used, unwanted, neglected things or the another time they are arranged by human in quite unexpected environment. During process of painting they become monumental shapes put in an artwork space. By colour, its intensity and transparency she try to change them into creations which are almost bestowed with personality. She often refer to her own visions and memories, that why the constructed objects are often suspended in a surreal space. Her paintings are a metaphor of reality, symbols and signs of items and they raise questions about the nature of humans and their environment.