Exhibition
INWARD
18 Jun 2021 – 22 Jun 2021
Regular hours
- Fri, 18 Jun
- 18:00 – 21:00
- Sat, 19 Jun
- 11:00 – 18:00
- Sun, 20 Jun
- 11:00 – 18:00
- Mon, 21 Jun
- 11:00 – 18:00
- Tue, 22 Jun
- 11:00 – 18:00
Address
- 205 Kings Rd Arches, Brighton BN1 1NB
- Brighton
East Sussex - BN1 1NB
- United Kingdom
Solo exhibition of Marta Ptaszkiewicz's latest paintings created through intuitive improvisation, reflecting states of being (mindscapes) as a response to processes happening in the outside world.
About
“Inward” is a continuation of the journey started in Marta's last year’s exhibition, “Wanderlust”. Again, the artworks depict the inner journeys, though this time they reflect our immediate social surroundings, so much transformed over the past year, and express the inner processes happening as a response to this.
According to Yi-Fu Tuan, space allows movement and place is a pause. As humans we need both and we need a balance between the two. Over the past year, many have called our social reality “a pause” as “the world slowed down”. We became confined to a “place” (home) rather than exploring the outside space. Our lifestyles became more static. But our inner worlds didn’t stop: the changes happening in the “outer” world (our relation to it) are echoed in our inner processes. We are experiencing a whole range of emotional states, some of which result in gradual transformations of our selves.
This exhibition aims to reflect some of these emotional states, or “mindscapes”.
The natural world not only supplies the artist with the language to depict those mindscapes but also nature simultaneously expresses itself – eruption of the Fagradalsfjall volcano in Iceland or cliffs collapsing at the English South coast – reflecting the ongoing mental processes and influencing the paintings on show.
The artworks are also inspired by butoh workshops with Atsushi Takenouchi and music of Hiroko Komiya, expressing inner journeys through body movement, in connection with earthly and bodily cycles, and by “Handmaid’s Tale”, a story by Margaret Atwood and its visual adaptation and soundtrack by Adam Taylor. The show will also include works revisited and painted to music of Brighton based Ensemble 1.
The artist will host a private view on 18 June at 6-9pm. If you wish to attend please contact us using the contact form so we know numbers https://mptask.wordpress.com/contact/
As there are still a few days to the updates of the guidelines about the public gatherings, check this space for updates about the attendance to Private View.
Looking forward to seeing you there!
Exhibition has been extended to 23 June until 3pm.
