Phot. Alicja Bielawska

The work At this time of the day even shadows have colours was part of the exhibition Art Ingredients which was dedicated to children. While creating the work, I wanted to get inside colours. I created vibrant spaces that invite viewers to spend some time inside being surrounded with colours. I used light fabrics that let a little light in. Being inside these small interiors with waving walls viewers may not only see the colour but also feel it.
The colours seem to be fugacious as if the light, but on the other hand, they can be touched as the fabric. The colours of floating “rooms” are arranged with colours of mattresses. The viewers may sit on them, lie down and even change this composition and watch how colours react on each other – how they match and clash.

 

Dreamed at Night by the Light of Day was created especially for the interior of the Powidoki café at the Museum on the Vistula.
The artist exploited the height of the interior to introduce a new space floating over the heads of the visitors. The work is built from fabric running along irregular arcs. Chiffon is printed with interpenetrating colours stressing the transience of divisions. The drawing of waving lines is answered by the rhythm set by ceramic balls. The artist introduces colours that are equally substantial and transient, establishing rhythms and changing under the influence of light. This variation depending on the time of day draws attention to the role of perception in how the work is received.
Dreamed at Night by the Light of Day fits within the interior but also opens up the architecture to a different experience. The work began with drawings, but when translated into space it suggests motion and outlines fragments of its trajectory. The artist’s earlier works, as well as treatises on colours and graphic scores, shine through this work. The title stresses the roles played by imagination, intuition and memory in the process of both creation and reception of the work.