DEADLINE. Never Ending Story | art book |

pigment ink on cotton paper, format 25 x 32 cm | edition 4 + 2 A.P.

The book, as a closed whole, consists of previously shattered parts, where the scattered pages of the book collection – layer by layer – create new narratives. It is the story of a sea that casts its remains ashore; of the World-Ocean – without beginning or end – constantly overflowing with living substance; of an unfolding spectacle that needs no audience – and of the sadness of entropy: melting glaciers, rising oceans and the illusion of waves. In the background of the ongoing tales, we can see abstract images created from a mixture of water, paint and oil – like a polluted foaming sea wave constantly in motion with its tides. In the foreground, the mini narratives are closed in collages – spanning between possibility and reality, the logic of order and accidental meeting, between the drama of decay and temporary sentiment.

Orzechowska`s work remains in a process of constant transformation. At this stage it has many empty pages which will one day be filled in. For now, however, the blank pages remain in their passive availability. In any case, by leaving it eternally unfinished – while at the same time losing control of it in part by giving it over to other hands and minds – the author gives it the shape of water in a vessel. Aware of the inevitable end, she tries to postpone it as long as possible.

Orzechowska is a visual artist and author of art books. She works in printmaking, collage, photography, ready-made, but also ceramic, installation and questions around collecting. The artist is interested in the choreography of the body and inscribing it into certain structures as a form of attempting to restore the proper order of things in the social and family field. Bodies subjected by her to innocent training become orderly compositions of disturbing shapes. In her recent realizations, she is mainly concerned with ˝OOO˝ - object-oriented ontology - and the people-object relationship. She likes crop rotation: Working with  leftovers, with objects, with different visual archives, with the human body. So she unintentionally practices physical and mental recycling. By making collages out of old newspapers and books, by building new forms and meanings on collections of clustered objects, she is constantly dealing with the fascinating materiality, but also with the chaos of things. Patrycja Orzechowska lives and works in Gdańsk.

DEADLINE. Never Ending Story | art book |

pigment ink on cotton paper, format 25 x 32 cm | edition 4 + 2 A.P.

The book, as a closed whole, consists of previously shattered parts, where the scattered pages of the book collection – layer by layer – create new narratives. It is the story of a sea that casts its remains ashore; of the World-Ocean – without beginning or end – constantly overflowing with living substance; of an unfolding spectacle that needs no audience – and of the sadness of entropy: melting glaciers, rising oceans and the illusion of waves. In the background of the ongoing tales, we can see abstract images created from a mixture of water, paint and oil – like a polluted foaming sea wave constantly in motion with its tides. In the foreground, the mini narratives are closed in collages – spanning between possibility and reality, the logic of order and accidental meeting, between the drama of decay and temporary sentiment.

Orzechowska`s work remains in a process of constant transformation. At this stage it has many empty pages which will one day be filled in. For now, however, the blank pages remain in their passive availability. In any case, by leaving it eternally unfinished – while at the same time losing control of it in part by giving it over to other hands and minds – the author gives it the shape of water in a vessel. Aware of the inevitable end, she tries to postpone it as long as possible.

Orzechowska is a visual artist and author of art books. She works in printmaking, collage, photography, ready-made, but also ceramic, installation and questions around collecting. The artist is interested in the choreography of the body and inscribing it into certain structures as a form of attempting to restore the proper order of things in the social and family field. Bodies subjected by her to innocent training become orderly compositions of disturbing shapes. In her recent realizations, she is mainly concerned with ˝OOO˝ - object-oriented ontology - and the people-object relationship. She likes crop rotation: Working with  leftovers, with objects, with different visual archives, with the human body. So she unintentionally practices physical and mental recycling. By making collages out of old newspapers and books, by building new forms and meanings on collections of clustered objects, she is constantly dealing with the fascinating materiality, but also with the chaos of things. Patrycja Orzechowska lives and works in Gdańsk.