Collection

Abstract works by Dorota Buczkowska bring bodily, organ, or tissue fragments to mind. By using makeup rather than paint, Buczkowska achieved an ethereal, semi-transparent greasy colour palette reminiscent of human skin. All images refer to relations between corporeality and emotions interpreted as chemical reactions. According to the Hippocratic theory, humans are united in similar traits of character. Hippocrates believed that each personality type is associated with a different bodily fluid, or “humour”: plain bile, black bile, blood, and phlegm, each assigned individual colours.

Creator of installations, objects, video works, paintings, drawings, and photographs. An art conservation and sculpture graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw and a graduate of the École Nationale Supérieure d’Arts à la Villa Arson in Nice. Frequently referencing corporeality, she is a close observer of the environment and creates pieces alluding to specific stories. Her work is a sophisticated and occasionally poetic analysis of perceiving reality, balancing on the borderline of beauty and revulsion, gentleness and brutality, pleasure and pain. She lives and works in Warsaw.