Collection

Jadwiga Sawicka’s photographs are an illustration of grappling with meaning, form, and beauty in art. The artist filled ordinary plastic bottles with coloured fluids and labelled them by hand. Beverage name labels have been replaced with such words as “faith”, “hope”, and “goodness”. The artist is troubled by the abundance and uncertainty of choice: one can never focus on a single thing only—something new always lurks around the corner. Part two comprises a series of photographs of carnation head compositions. Flowers symbolise natural beauty, and plastic bottles photographed against a backdrop of fake fur or coloured faux leather become a quintessential commentary on mass culture-produced kitsch.

Painter, creator of objects, installations and photographs. A graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków, where she studied in Prof. Jerzy Nowosielski’s studio. She began with expressive pieces, becoming consistent in combining text with image since the 1990s, quoting the TV, press, and internet. Deprived of their original context, all become apt commentaries on public ambience. Her works, such as We Won, They Cried, and Obedient, have been produced as canvases, billboards, wallpaper, posters, and book covers. Sawicka has also created series of clothing, floral and cosmetic renditions with fictitious advertising slogans. She frequently collaborates with Marek Horwat on photographic and graphic projects. Winner of the Jan Cybis Award (2013) and Katarzyna Kobro Award (2016). She lives and works in Przemyśl.