The exhibition, All Eyez Inn, will incorporate sculpture, screen printing and photography, and revolves around how the act of looking is an essential condition of being in the world. This motif appears in various forms, every time slipping out of a singular field of vision. Marszewski's works stem from her interest in the artist as both a strategist and a utopian businessperson, giving her works specific aesthetic values.
The organisers said of the exhibition:
This pseudo-bureaucracatic function is suggested by the sculpture in the back gallery: a series of heart-shaped metal plates connected by several coiled telephone wires. Both a prop in the artist’s ‘office’ and a potential centre of communication for the exhibition, the work refers to Marszewski’s use of language as a plastic and flexible material in the conflation of personal and administrative aesthetics.
Marszewski’s practice begins with an attempt to define her surrounding environment. She observes intensively and repetively, produces, re-thinks and overlaps image and text. She brings together and translates fragments from the past, present and future into a ‘contemporary’ reality.
Katharina Marszewski
Katharina Marszewski was born in 1980. She is a Polish artist based both in Warsaw and Berlin. Marszewski concentrates on photographs, collages, installations and graphic art. She is interested in reproducing images and applies various methods including screen printing, lithography, monotype and photocopying. She defines herself as a ‘correspondent of events-that-never-were’, recounting images of contemporary metropolis. Her works are inspired mostly by her private experiences, social situations, but also by her treatment of language – she 'redacts' and 'edits' processed images.
Her works also showcases protagonists of self-destructive behaviour and 'ruins' of cities, presenting them as exhibitions or theatre stages.
Katharina Marszewski All Eyez Inn
9th December 2015 to 23rd January 2016
L'étrangère
44a Charlotte Road
London, United Kingdom
Sources: Culture.pl, l’étrangère, compiled by ND, 30 Nov 2015