Wiola Ujazdowska – rituals, sweethearts and more

Wiola Ujazdowska is an artist from Poland based in Reykjavik, Iceland. She holds a M.A. degree in Art Theory from Nicolaus Copernicus University where she was also studying Painting and Stained Glass at the Department of Fine Arts. In 2012 she won the Jan Winczakiewicz Award and set off to be Artist in Residence in Paris. The same year she began studying Painting, Sculpture and Modern Art at the Institute of Conservation Sciences in Cologne, Germany.

“Ujazdowska works with variety of visual and non-visual forms of expression; from movement and sound to painting and drawing; from art installation and objects to collages and photography. Such a big spectrum of expression methods helps to present a multi- threaded phenomena which is woman nature and condition within human culture bond with subconscious that according to the psychoanalysis is where all the layers of an individual’s psyche coexist. Important figure in her works is a witch or a “wiedzma” (wise women) that very often she use to describe herself. Through the privilege but as well stigma of being the Other – a women, an artist, an immigrant she portrays surrounding her reality, her body and sexuality. Death. Quotation of reality or pointing formation feature her art-forms building a specific personal symbolic language. Quotes also appear in the conceptual part of works where she refers to writings of Helen Cixous, Georges Batallie, Jacques Lacan and especially Georges Jung psychoanalysis that links to the archetypes and believes from different cultures. mixture of universal aesthetic of minimalism and well-builded composition is fundamental in her understanding of building an art form.”

↠↠↠ Wiola Ujazdowska will be exhibiting both new works as well as older ones that have never been shown before.
The exhibition opens Sunday 16th April at 17.00.
Exclusively on this special occasion a new video work will be displayed on the upper floor giving a sneak peak of the video/sound installation „Nunu“. This installation was created in a collaboration with musician and composer James Pearce, with whom Wiola previously worked on their installation “From Afar From Always From Without“ which was shown in Iceland and Poland.
The exhibition will run until Thursday 20th April.