2nd Lublin Spring Painting Biennial
The First Honorary Mention, Poland 2023
No title landscape, oil on canvas, 110 x 80 cm, Porto, Portugal 2023A psychedelic landscape reminiscent of David Cronenberg's films. Swollen plasma spreads out in irregular circles. Electricity illuminating viscera of a dismembered amphibian seen through a microscope. Glistening muscles of a strange organism unable to act, to think, to dream.
“So, like tiktaalik-in-reverse, we crawl back into the safety of the primordial soup, to a place that’s far away yet equally as alien as the world we currently live in.”
Günseli Yalcinkaya, "Going prehistoric: are we entering the ‘dinocore’ era?", dazeddigital.com
Eye I, oil on canvas, 80 x 70 cm, Cracow, Poland 2021
A seed bloating with a thousand fibers sunken inside a pitchy, viscid fluid. It's also a trap, dead space that swallows light.
"(...) a little how you imagine, for example, a tear gland to be, with thin, ciliated edges, and within which, quivering, twitching, writhing, are some intensely white flashes, some of them extremely thin, like infinitely fine stripes, others much thicker, almost fat, like maggots."
Georges Perec, "A Man Asleep" (translated by Andrew Leak)
Object I, oil on canvas, 110 x 80 cm, Cracow, Poland 2022
Mechanical mold merges into the glow of a biological coating. We might understand individual parts, but the whole makes no sense. We don't know what it's for - stuff of delirious dreams, a fascinating as it is useless. Bizarre stalks of the metal skeleton glimmer in the light.
Water, oil on canvas, 130 x 90 cm, London, UK 2022