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New York’s Lyles & King gallery will now represent Aneta Grzeszykowska, the Polish artist whose eerie, alluring work ponders skin, avatars, and the body in oppressive societies.
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“Aneta Grzeszykowska: No/Body” is on view at 11R and Lyles & King in New York through Sunday, October 16. The two-venue solo exhibition presents recent work by the Polish artist.
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What’s on view: A solo show spanning two galleries. In 11R: several photographs of female body parts carefully sculpted from pig skin: a mask being painted with needles in its cheek, a hand missing fingers, a breast. Two black leather masks, one with cat ears. Three films in a darkened room featuring naked choreographed performers.
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Nostalgia is a funny feeling. It matters little what was experienced; most of it will be wistfully remembered in hindsight. This is the entertaining
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A vacant office with a low ceiling and a tatty floor. Bright orange and yellow prints line the windows and walls, but the space is littered
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While organizing the group show "Hair and Skin," curator Isaac Lyles considered recent research into "mirror neurons" and "physical empathy" suggesting
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Aneta Grzeszykowska (b. 1974 Poland) studied at the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts. Also known for numerous works her with long-time collaborator Jan Smaga, Grzeszykowska has exhibited in several international venues including the 4th Berlin Biennial, the Zacheta National Gallery of Art in Warsaw, and the Miami Art Museum. Smaga and Grzeszykowska are represented by Galerie Raster in Warsaw. Aneta Grzeszykowska lives and works in Warsaw.
The photography of Aneta Grzeszykowska captures a unique worldview allowing the viewer to enter the head of the artist. Untitled (Portraits) is a series of eighteen photographs that includes numbered portraits of eighteen different people. The ages and clothing of each subject differs, but the manner in which the portrait is taken-to includes the shoulders and chest-and the facial expressions link the very different people together in the series. Aneta is known to incorporate digital manipulation as well as trick photography to give her photographs ability to influence and change perspective. Through the use of Photoshop, her 2005 work, “Album,” eliminates her from over 200 photographs of her personal life. This allows Aneta’s life to be autobiographical represented without her figure appearing in the photographed situations.
“Girl with a chewing gum 02” is a wool and wooden construction of female chewing gum. The dolls of Aneta Grzeszykowska are not projections of her desires but objectified, deeply ambivalent memory images, reconstructions of her body in the theatrical space of the exhibition. Grzeszykowska places us in an impossible position — on the one hand she invites us to draw from her dolls an unnamed pleasure, to touch and watch them, on the other, she forces us to realise that these projections-reconstructions are product of the imagination of a person who is already aware of being seen and watched, aware of the violence of the other's gaze, shaping her subjectivity. It is exactly this impossible position that is the source of the uncanniness of Grzeszykowska's dolls, suspended between object and subject, between life and death: they undergo constant transformations and, in their “limitless submissiveness”, are ready to drive us to despair by their very presentness.
For additional information about this artist, visit Mutual Art
