Paulina Sylwestrowicz The Fiels Of Reception 2025 | Site Specific
Autor: Paulina Sylwestrowicz
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Transcient Imperfection
Paulina Sylwestrowicz The Reveries 2019 | 170 x 110 cm Oil on Canvas
The work „Transcient Imperfection” is built upon concepts previously explored in the artist’s doctoral thesis, „Chaotic Forms – The Points of Reference”.
The author treats her works as „coordinates”. By creating images – she creates the signs, strengthening the basic elements of visual language through repetition, reiteration, and exposure. The condensation of a fragment is the material for the emergence of its autonomy, creating an additional dimension – a dimension of suspension, depth of perception and depth of knowledge.
Through her thoughtful and deliberate approach, the artist seeks to grasp the essence of human existence and experiential reality. Themes recurring throughout her oeuvre include: Points of Reference, The Areas of Oblivion, Chaotic Condensatie, and Transitional States of Mind. At the core of her creative process lies the philosophical concept of „I-Am-Now,” which emphasizes being a conscious observer in the world around us.
She points out that the described point, the true image, is indeed the moment of awareness, being consciously “here”, and the act of cognition. The work serves as coordinates. Consciousness, in its uncertainty, penetrates through unclear layers, projections, uncertain, momentary, fleeting. It lends presence to the absent – in silence.
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The Areas Of Oblivion
I tend to embody a notion of presence in my work, when a weight and gravity of presented objects would take over the space and a viewer. I try to produce sort of echo, almost physical sensation of a space that wakes us up to our own presence.
This is a second time when I revolve around a subject of The Areas of Oblivion. This time I concentrate on a contrast between what is known and unknown, a positive and negative side of things. One that is known is a reminder of an idea of sacrum, which according to Mircea Eliade originates from the act of dividing the space which is known and therefore safe and true. The stability and continuance of sacrum provides a shelter from the chaos of ordinary existence, gives a point of reference, a foundation for purposeful living. Thus the Areas Of Oblivion is an interpretation of a chaos and it’s indefinite and sometimes scary quality.
Those areas – sacrum and chaos – are complementary and determine the existence of opposite. Carle Andre coined an aphorism which describes curious and paradoxical relationship between complementary: „a thing (that) is a hole in a thing it is not”.
