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Barbara Wesołowska
b. 1984, lives and works in London
Barbara Wesołowska graduated from the Department of Painting at Royal College of Art, London in 2015 and the Slade School of Fine Art, London in 2013.
Her work identifies most closely with the traditional practice of figurative painting. Through the application of paint and layered surfaces she strives to explore physiologically intense narratives. As Pierre Klossowski’s formulates ‘Image dictates to me’. This openness of painting to the realm of feelings, memory and chance makes the question of intentions less relevant and instead points in the direction of the unconscious.
Wesołowska's paintings often engage the psychological attachment to the female body. The proliferation of over-layered staring figures and faces echoes the remorse or disillusionment with the reality of life, as opposed to care-free attitude of youth. Beneath the negativity and nostalgia, she tries to convey a complex, unfolding notion of what it means to be female over the expanse of time.
SELECTED WORKS
PAST EXHIBITIONS
2022
Appple in the dark
Harkawik, NYC, USA
Text by Toniann Fernandez
2021
Nothing about murmuring
imlabor, Tokyo, Japan
Text by Sam Tierney
2020
Sphynx of Black Quartz, Judge my Vow
Palfrey Gallery, London, UK
Curator: John Chilver
2020
Mirror of impalpable nudity, with Natali Price Hafslund
Gao Gallery, London, UK
2020
The Vapours
Kunsthalle Bamberg, Germany, DE
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2019
In the flesh
with Florence Peake and Lewis Hammond
Peles Empire, Berlin, DE
2019
A Wind in the Door
Rumpeltstiltskin, New York, USA
