The exhibition “Some Time of Spaces” presents works of the young generation of Polish female artists. The starting point was, however, to choose the works not dealing with subjects traditionally perceived as feminine.

The second source of inspiration came from the gallery itself – its elongated shape, long like a corridor and its whiteness filled with the light entering through huge atrium windows on the left side. It is a pure pleasure to watch the sun suffusing this space. During the exhibition time, the sunlight will be cold and sharp – winterly white... The aim was to transpose the real space outside into the sterile and abstract vacuum of this gallery.
  In this context works of Katarzyna Skrobiszewska seem to be a perfect match. When you take a first look at her paintings of the “Patrzcie” (“Look”) series you have an irresistible impression of a distant view stretching in front of your eyes. After a short while you start to realize that although the works hang at the same height and form a ‘landscape range’ on the gallery’s wall, each wants to be seen from a different distance, angle and demands the eye to adopt to various ‘sharpnesses’ of the view.
The artist from Krakow is indeed literally showing us that “everywhere something wants to be seen” as she stated in one of her other works. Her paintings need so many different eyes to look at…
The newest works of the artist - paintings from the “ostre/ nieostre” series (“sharp/unsharp”) are a consequent continuation of the latest. Kasia Skrobiszewska seems to put an even stronger emphasis on subtle, but at the same time, strong and defining distance between the work and the viewer. The large scale paintings are covered in a misty light blue colour. The viewer’s eyes have to ‘solve’ the ‘dissolved’ fog of first unsharp impression. Small pink dots are scattered all over the surface in a form of a regular grid and in this way help to ‘construct’ the map of the picture. An ‘atmospheric’ dispersed cloud of the painting forces your eye to ‘measure’ and adapt to the un/sharpness of the view on the canvas.

Malwina Rzonca, another artist from Krakow, ‘touches’ with her paintings spaces unseen by the human eye and brings them closer to the viewer, makes them literally visible. The inspiration for her astronomic series comes from photographs taken by the Hubble Telescope ‘observing’ the Universe. The artist’s universe cannot be though “seen” with visible light, but in ultraviolet only.
This light shines into the gallery space from these pictures directly into the viewer’s eyes – giving kind of a reminiscence of star light travelling through space. “Permanent Performance of Matter”, the installation prepared especially for this exhibition in the gallery’s black box, aims at confronting the viewer with the cold and almost abstract beauty of outer space in the most possible direct way – immersively, completely enclosing him and his senses. 

On behalf of the Antje Wachs Gallery and my own, I would like to invite you to spend some time in the macrocosms of these artistic works in order to admire their subtle and sophisticated beauty…

Katarzyna Woźniak, curator