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Joanna Wierzbicka

I work across sculpture, photography, and installation, with a particular focus on fabrics—used clothing, printed, or dyed textiles. I create sculptures that explore the interplay between soft/hard and tension developed through the genre of body horror, where forms resembling intestines, organs, organisms and monstrous shapes emerge.
I work across sculpture, photography, and installation, with a particular focus on fabrics—used clothing, printed, or dyed textiles. I create sculptures that explore the interplay between soft/hard and tension developed through the genre of body horror, where forms resembling intestines, organs, organisms and monstrous shapes emerge. Through my work, I emphasise matter as a living and active participant of reality. I am interested in human and non-human bodies and the wider material world of uneven and porous interactions we are in. Through the lens of biological processes such as composting, digesting, and breathing, I explore the dynamic relations of our bodies and how they extend beyond the skin. They are not fixed or isolated, but rather fluid and in constant dialogue with the world. I ask what runs through, across, and beyond them, how other agents affect us. By questioning the stability of the individual body, I address the global and material impacts of late capitalism and climate change, and how they shape, and are shaped by our embodiment.

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