Katarzyna Golenia-Baldyga
she/her
Polish/German, 1988
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Thesis: Untitled. Headless Art Practice
In painting, I am interested in transformations. Currently, the process unfolds like this: painting, printing, painting again—first upright, then upside down, then back to upright. I can’t foresee what the image will become until I’m faced with my decisions in the process.
Essentially, this means making a mark and then reacting to it, creating a moment of revelation. This requires trust in spontaneously emerging ‘solutions’.
Large formats played a role in this process; allowing freedom without constraints. No compromises, just singular focus. Handling the material, when it asserts itself strongly. Uncovering relationships between parts and wholes.
I embrace uncertainty, surrendering to the fluidity of paint. For me, paint, painting, and paintings, are forces able to charge, open up, strangle, tell a story, bounce joyously, conceal and reveal, twist and surprise, change a point of view, drip, fall apart, be real and illusionary, complicated and simple, smooth and rough, go over and under, they can embody all of these qualities simultaneously, surpassing presupposed contradictions and impossibilities.
