Gallery`Wozownia`- Laboratorium Sztuki, Toruń/Poland 2008
Małgorzata Jankowska: Your works are conceived at the intersection of opposites: the architectural order of forms is softened within by the energy of gesture; the silence and calm marked by white and black are strengthened by aggressive cuts, fractures, angles. Geometric forms are created from the biological sign of the body, the immobile imprints are moved by the vitality of the multiplied forms. Is this continuous ‘movement’ of complementing elements an attempt at self-determination, a search for balance, in life and in art…?
Agnieszka Rożnowska: In the text On Infinity accompanying the exhibition under the same name I mentioned how difficult it is for us, Westerners, to imagine any shape that would be created from a component of a relatively empty space. Alan Watts mentioned the problem of emptiness, emphasizing how much we ignore space because it is as uniform as air or water. ‘Emptiness appears barren yet is infinite fullness’, as the known wisdom of Lao-Tzu reads.
Scientists are still trying to explain the incomprehensible phenomenon of electricity, where two poles, positive and negative, create an energy flow. This duality of phenomena is creative: day-night, silence and sound, space and light, life and death. Just as antagonisms call each other up, a number of my projects are built on the principle of opposites.
My thinking about the world is of a dualistic nature, which, as you mentioned, is visible in many of my works. There is an extraordinary power in these opposites, and constant balancing often causes a tendency to come closer to one side or the other of these opposites
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