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Bogumila Strojna is a French/Polish artist living and working in France. For several years, she has exhibited in the Salon de Réalités Nouvelles where she is a member of the comity and the comity of the gallery Abstract Project, launched by the Salon in 2014. She is represented by Galerie Victor Sfez in Paris. Her work is in private collections including the Satoru Sato Art Museum (Tome City, Japan) and the collection of CCNOA (Center for Contemporary Non-Objective Art, Brussels, Belgium). She has made several monumental works in public spaces (Matour in Burgundy, Altier in Languedoc-Roussillon, Midi-Pyrenees) as well as projects for institutions in France (1% artistique à La Courneuve). She exhibits regularly in France (Galerie Victor Sfez, Galerie Olivier Nouvellet, ParisCONCRET, Abstract Project, Espace Christianne Peugeot, Hang Art), as well as internationally in Germany (Hamburg, Edges to Emptiness, open studio, Osnabruck, Hase29), the Netherlands (gallery EM in Drachten), Australia (Factory 49, SNO and Articulate Project Space in Sydney), China (Museum of Fine Arts, Beijing, Sculpture Art Museum, Qingdao, Shenyang, gallery 1905, Academy of Fine Arts), Poland (Elblag, Galeria EL, Kielce, Institute of Fine Arts, Katowice, University Gallery) and United States (Portland, MECA, New York, Trestle Gallery). The works of Bogumila Strojna are acts of transformation between the soft and the hard, the two-dimensional and the three-dimensional, between drawing and sculpture, image and object. They can be viewed as sculpture that has moved to the wall or as drawing that has moved to the floor, though, at times, they have transgressed these boundaries more than once before settling into place.  At its core, the work is about space and movement. Conceptions of space begin as two-dimensional representations before being transformed by material processes. Metal orthographic drawings are folded and rolled bringing fluidity to a rigid material as it is lifted from the plane to occupy and define new spaces and structures. Through these actions—a kind of spatial journey—Strojna’s work takes on a multiplicity of readings that engage the viewer both intellectually and viscerally in the transformation of its material reality.  Daniel G.Hill Daniel G.Hill is an artist living and working in New York City, Assistant Professor of Fine Arts at Parsons School of Design.