At the center of my artistic practice lies tension — emotional, social, and cultural. It sets the rhythm of my work and forms the structure upon which I build my visual narratives. I treat tension as a state of suspension, a moment of collision between opposites: control and impulse, seriousness and laughter, weight and lightness.
My practice explores the space between tension and relief — between the emotional overload of contemporary life and the moment of breath that allows it to be transformed. I am interested in how the body, gesture, and humor can become tools for emotional regulation, and how the creative process itself can be an act of regaining balance.
I draw on both personal and social themes, observing how anxiety, shame, and uncertainty are inscribed in the everyday experience of an individual immersed in an excess of stimuli. I treat humor as a strategy for releasing tension — a way of exposing absurdities, working through difficult emotions, and regaining distance from the world. It is a laughter that does not trivialize, but rather purifies.
Currently, I am analyzing the relationship between emotional tension and the feeling of relief, referring to research on humor styles (HSQ, Martin et al., 2003). I am interested in how different forms of laughter — from self-irony to absurdity — can transform tension into creative energy and a shared experience of release.
I work across various media: from large-scale painting and automatic drawing to video, as well as spatial and performative actions. Painting is for me a physical and bodily experience — I paint on large formats, often on the floor, moving across the surface. The body becomes part of the composition, and movement — a record of emotional tension and its release. In this process, the painterly gesture is not only a trace but also an act of presence — a form of contact with matter and with myself.
My works balance between control and impulse, tension and relaxation, seriousness and humor. Within this dynamic exchange, I seek a language capable of taming anxiety and transforming it into an experience of relief, lightness, and breath.
EDUCATION:
I was born in 1990. I live and work in Warsaw. I am a graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw,Faculty of Media Art.
2016:
Master’s diploma project “#” completed in the Painting Space Studio under the supervision of Prof. Leon Tarasewicz. Grade: very good, with a dean’s distinction.
2014:
Bachelor’s diploma project “CZECZE” completed in the Public Domain Art Studio under the supervision of Dr. Krzysztof Wodiczko. Grade: very good.