Sylwia Mucha | Furriness

12 - 31. 10.2024

curator: Patrycja Bochenek

opening: 11.10. 2024 19:00

mia ART GALLERY invites you to a solo exhibition of works by Sylwia Mucha, “Furriness”.

The exhibition presents the artist's latest paintings, in which she develops her search for combinations of childhood nostalgia and adult sensuality. In her works she uses furry motifs, which become the leading thread of her artistic investigations.

The title of the exhibition refers to the allusive and phenomenological dimension of her work, where the hybrid, furry forms in the paintings map surreal areas of our sensual nature.

Fur is as much a visual formation as a tactile one. One can't help but “see” the sensation of the coarse goo between one's fingers at the memory of a beloved furry cat, or the smoothness of the hair of one's first holiday love. These experiences create the sensory-haptic potential of our perception that so fascinates the artist.

Sylwia Mucha treats her canvases as visualizations of poetry. She begins at the very first stage of her work - with the selection of linen of the right weight. The paintings are created in one day, and sometimes in just a few hours in one session. During this time, the artist uses oil paint to “comb” the content of her works, so to speak. Subtle color combinations bring in a particular memory or impression, delicate and intimate.

In her works, the artist creates a sensual world referring to the passionate, tender and voluptuous imaginations rooted in our subconscious. Fur becomes a pretext for looking deep into ourselves, exploring our innermost desires and fantasies. The visible is intertwined with the hidden.

Sylwia Mucha, graduate of the Faculty of Painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Wroclaw and Sociology at the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Wroclaw. Assistant at her alma mater in the studio of Prof. Anna Maria Kramm. Author of solo exhibitions  and participant in numerous group exhibitions. The starting point of her works is phenomenological intuition based on the experience of space and color, visual memories, which are often determined by reminiscences of photographic thinking in the approach to composition and light in the image. She draws on diverse registers of knowledge, such as sociology, philosophy or ecological phenomena in the Anthropocene era.