Marta WOJNICKA (1989), from the series: impossible cities : 2021

Aryl, ecoline, ink, paper; 70 x 100 cm
Signed, dated on the back: Marta Wojnicka 2021

Graduate of the Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow. She defended her diploma in 2015 in the Studio of intaglio under the supervision of Henryk Ożog and the annex to the diploma in the Painting Studio of Rector Stanisław Tabisz. She mainly works in printmaking, drawing, painting and graphic design in the broadest sense. She held a six-month "Erasmus" scholarship at the Academy of Fine Arts in Florence in 2015. Among other things, she was awarded second prize in the XXXIII Premio Firenze - Florence 2015.

Marta's drawings represent the expression of alienation and loss of modern man in urban reality, which is a labyrinth in which the individual feels alienated. In these works one can find inspiration from psychology, philosophy or metaphysics. Art, as seen by the artist, is like Schrödinger's cat, the problem of existence is presented here in the series: "Non-existent cities", which is not only an ontological consideration of their author, but also a game with the viewer, who will decide for himself what he considers to be existing and what is non-existent. One can also find inspiration in the myth of Plato's cave, where the shadows on the walls are a metaphor for the reality we perceive, which no more exists than a daydream. Today's reality, not just virtual reality, is on the borderline between existence and nonexistence, just like that shadow on the wall. "Cities of non-existence" in Marta's works are compositions that deliberately depict phenomena on the borderline between dream and java, where thought and its representation merge in an aesthetic projection.