Marta Gawron

When afraid of public speaking, it is often advised to picture the audience naked - this has never worked for me. I’m not afraid of the audience, but of its constructs – official documents, sexualised images – the tools of subject creation, control and the commodification of everything. (...)

Marta G. is an artist and writer, working with sculpture, language and curation. The titles of some of her recent works are: “If but once as always never yet”, “Bondgirl’sBondgirls”, “Untitled (Orchidea)”. Her practice recognises that societal constructs are often represented by two dimensional objects like the passport, or the display tray of an industrially grown fruit. Marta explores these objects sculpturally, and in doing so explores their material histories, symbolism, hidden fragilities and idiosyncrasies. Her aim is to, by means of sculptural and textual intervention, disarm these objects, revealing them as naked and vulnerable to the human hand. Often working in sets, she curates spaces like open-ended questions, with elements of comic relief and, ultimately, encouragement.