Magdalena Gluszak-Holeksa
Magdalena uses the medium of painting as a language to explore impermanence and the body’s relationship with the nonmaterial.. Shifting between awareness and the subconscious, she wrestles with memories which she is unsure are both real and imagined. She translates this feeling in her paintings where she both conceals and reveals symbols and objects which only make themselves known to the viewer if they know where and how to look.
Magdalena works with a limited, cool colour palette which echoes the nocturnal moods of the environment where she grew up. Her compositions merge elements of the natural environment, everyday objects, interiors and fragments of bodies which she draws from old childhood photos and found images. Placed within dim ambiguous settings, shadows and lights punctuate her canvases surfaces; the boundaries and structures of form become fluid, mirroring the weight and movement of thoughts: petals detach and float, materials expand or liquify and walls evaporate, leading her into moments caught in-between landscape and still-life.
