TO and OVO by Grazyna Gras Nowacka

18.05.2023 / hour 19:00 / Studio Korczak. Poznan, 36 Glogowska St.

Between mystery and banality

The exhibition TO and OVO by Grazyna Grasa Nowacka was created on the basis of photographic images, but it goes far beyond the primary medium, becoming an interspecies, interdisciplinary realization, drawing also from painting, film, performance. There is no lack of installation inscribed in the site-specific convention.

The visual side of the project juxtaposes the mysterious with the banal, the fiesta with the everyday. It offers a complexity of contexts, a thicket of appearances, confusing tropes and non-obviousness that confront the viewer with open questions. The artist reaches into the arsenal of already-trademarked concepts to take a fresh look at them, filtering them through a surprisingly analytical web of associations.

The reception of her art is sometimes multi-sensory, and the simultaneity of artistic facts is a particularly characteristic feature for her. However, paradoxically with all this, the author uses condensed, elliptical thinking.

And in this vein, she herself briefly says of the exhibition: "it's a nostalgic-catastrophic-ecological-symbolic-survival story".

You are welcome.

exhibition curator - Rafal Polaszewski

GRAŻYNA GRASA NOWACKA

A visual artist and performer, she uses various media to create multi-level hybrid statements. Her works have been shown in solo exhibitions in galleries at home and abroad. In addition, she has realized about 30 exhibitions in public spaces. She has won numerous awards in competitions in the fields of photography, graphic design and literature.

He is also a long-time lecturer and teacher of photography in art schools. He cooperates with cultural institutions. Member of the Union of Polish Artists Photographers.

The latest TO and OVO exhibition was created in 2023, based on photos, videos and recordings specially made for this project. As always for the author, the most important thing is outside the frame....