Arow

Piotr Wozniak • Przerąb • Poland

2018 • Wax, acrylic paint, offset, board

70 x 100 cm • Framed: 76.5 x 106.5 cm

As specimen who subjected Earth to ourselves, we are getting closer to the point of no return. Are we becoming, in some perverse way, similar to God by sending down the plagues to ourselves? Information about the explosion of death brought by totalitarianism, human-induced cataclysms and epidemics are flooding us through mass media, causes contradistinction good from evil impossible to tell. Or maybe this impossibility is the result of lack of the question about the gist of evil? The vanitas motif in my artwork is to remind about inevitable evanescence and death. Nowadays perception of death became unduly simplified. The omnipresence of intrusive media chasing after bombshell leads us to insensitivity, we are becoming more and more resistant to the view of brutal crimes, bloody deaths and corpses. Simultaneously galloping digitalization, that marshals us using algorithms and blears the boundaries between real and virtual world, is dehumanizing our race. Imperfections following from the fragility of every human being combined with contemporary echoes of the biblical plagues, diseases and mortality will bring doom to humanity.

Baffled Euterpie

Daria Solar • Lodz • Poland

2018 • oil on canvas

30 x 70 cm • Framed: 35 x 75 cm

Baffled Euterpie is the ancient muse of music, who, being immortal, has lived untill today. In the past to listen to music she would just sit next to musicians and enjoy, but nowadays she is faceing numeous challenges. In my painting she is trying to listen to one of our spectacular sound devices...but she has problems coping with technology...she is trying to plug in, but the plugs do not match.

Phoenix and the Strongmen

Daria Solar • Lodz • Poland

2007 • oil on canvas

30 x 70 cm • Framed: 37 x 77 cm

The piece is a titular painting of my exhibition 'FantAktis' in 2009 the frame is an integrated part of the image - I designed the piece together with the frame. It portrays the struggle between Ice and Fire, the revival and freeing of the cold beings by the personification of fire. The painting is framed and varnished.

Susanna and the Elders

Daria Solar • Lodz • Poland

2019 • oil on canvas

80 x 120 cm

Susanna and drones is my answer to the often painted biblical motif of Susanna and the Elders. In my painting, I transferred Susanna to the 21st century, and placed three drones over her head as a symbol of technology invading the private space of each of us with evil intentions. There were two Elders in the biblical story of Susanna, but I added the third drone in my piece. Why? First of all, for love for a polish painter - Jacek Malczewski - who put three old people on his version of Susanna's story, but also because in the current world the voyeur can be peeped, and we must be aware that if one follows someone, they are not free from surveillance, either. The third drone can also be the symbol of the right figure of David, who has detected the conspiracy. Another element important to the image is the "Dry Shampoo" on the right. It is a reference to tradition, because Suzanna was usually portrayed taking a bath, and in our century, bathing can be done without water.

On the edge of thirst

Maja Borowicz • Poland

2018 • oil on canvas

73 x 100 cm