IRENA CZAPSKA
Artist
Printmaking is my language. I trace the boundaries between feeling and form.
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My work is an ongoing exploration of self-image which considers how connecting strands, through identity and displacement, reveal themselves. Using the absent body, dresses and portraiture as ciphers, the work explores uncertainties and existential fears of who we are and where we are placed in this world.
Memory and narrative are erased and reworked in the print process which lends itself perfectly to this fluid engagement. The work sits in a state of ongoing investigation and revision where the idea of completion is not necessarily an expectation.
I am working on long term projects around the dress shape and absent portraits together and a pandemic project – Hold in Your Hands. During lockdown, I documented daily for a year, images specifically of flowers, hair and soil. The flowers, hair and soil all hold folds of meaning which shift and reshape and lead back to body spaces as a locus of the limitations of my understanding during this time of uncertainty and altered reality.