Collection

The painting emerged from the artist’s observations of the city from her former studio on Aleje Jerozolimskie in Warsaw. In the windows of the building opposite, the façade housing her studio was reflected, creating overlapping images of reality and its mirror image. She was particularly interested in the experience of seeing the very place she occupied while being unable to perceive her own presence within it. This feeling of being simultaneously present and absent became the starting point for the work. Rather than depicting a specific view, the painting serves as a record of memory and impressions. Fragments of architecture, reflections in glass, tram wires, rain, and rhythmic marks resembling a sound recording appear throughout the composition. The title refers to the need to affirm one’s presence and to the attempt to establish contact with someone on the other side of the windowpane. Here, singing becomes a simple gesture directed outward, reaching beyond oneself.

Painter. She graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Katowice in 2022. Her paintings emerge through experimentation, intuition, and the repetition of gestures. They explore themes of solitude, existential reflection, and trauma. Drawing on handwriting, scribbles, and spontaneous note-taking, the artist transforms fleeting traces and remembered movements into painterly forms. She is not interested in documenting reality or producing literal representations of what she sees. Instead, her focus lies in preserving the traces of memory, the creative process, and the chance occurrences that arise along the way. She lives and works in Warsaw.