Alicja Jaworska

On painting: Space and our way of perceiving it are deeply interconnected. They are a source of emotions, which I employ in my artistic work: vast open plains, monumental translucent glaciers, they all provide us with the impression of greatness and power of nature. My work is an attempt in enclosing it so that it can be, so to say, humanized, and therefore accessible for transformation into a cultural context. There are numerous possibilities of representing nature – our civilization knows many ways of transforming immeasurable areas into finite locations. My paintings abound in elements of landscape. Sometimes I try to synthetize shapes that intrigued me in a way to create a map, a blueprint that would describe a certain territory, an object or a phenomenon. A meticulous analysis leads to a reduction of some elements of the landscape represented in my paintings, so that the final work is characterized by its simplified form that encompasses only those of the features of the portrayed area that were prominent for me. Therefore, many of the places and objects I represent in the paintings may be perceived as various geometrical shapes of different sizes. The geometrical forms are not organized, as sometimes it is impossible to find ...

Alicja Jaworska (born 1991, Wrocław)
Alicja Jaworska has graduated from The Eugeniusz Geppert Academy of Art and Design in Wrocław in 2016, gaining a degree in painting under the supervision of associate professor Łukasz Huculak, Ph.D. She lives and keeps an art studio in Wrocław.