Graduated from Poznan Academy of Fine Arts in 2007. Diploma work in Sculpture in Prof. D. Mączak’s Studio and drawing at Prof. J. Drążkiewicz’s studio (where she started working as an assistant in 2006).

‘Childhood’ is my diploma work in Prof. D. Maczak’s Sculpture Studio at Poznan Academy of Fine Arts. Initially it was a performance piece in Inner Spaces Gallery in Poznan. This is my second work in wood (after “I Will Tell You About My Dream”) My works result from the urge to produce images of emotional and symbolic value with various degrees of encoding on cultural, unconscious or surface levels, where not all information undergoes rational analysis and the substantial part of it remains impenetrable.

The process of artistic expression may be compared to a verbal statement where the expressed becomes subdued. Image materialization is the moment of internal dialogue, when ‘I’ explains itself to itself in order to understand and move forward. Art therefore is not only a means to maintain psychological health (L. Bourgois) but also a means to personal transgression, leading to an enhancement of being. The viewer’s role is rather marginal and non-active here. He or she is mainly a witness validating the ritual, and generating new, alternative meanings to the primary one resulting from the initial assumptions.

The record of inner tensions and states is a very personal expression but I hope it is not a very hermetic one as it is through empathy and intuition that individual meanings become universal. The necessary condition to widen this spectrum is the sincerity of expression.
Barbara Pilch