Aneta Lewandowska

Intimate Rituals, 2023 in OP ENHEIM, Wrocław | Fot.Wojciech Chrubasik

All thoughts I lost walking that way

2022 | sticks, wood, acrylic and wire

A drawing traced across the sky, suspended between two hundred-year-old cherry trees, on the road from Tarczyn to Modrzewie — my cherished path to stillness, where thoughts settle and silence begins.

Disturbator

2023 | site-specific installation, line, wood, leaves

In highlighting the role of capitalism in causing the environmental crisis, Jason W. Moore proposes to replace the term "anthropocene", with "capitalocene". This is because he believes that the real culprits of global warming are all expressions of power that are based on exploitation and the need for endless acquisition or accumulation of wealth, which is related to - not environmentally indifferent - technological and industrial development.

Pastel colors evoke associations with the products of mass production / capitalocene (plastic, toys, gadgets) or thoughts (thought-forms) that distract, distort and draw our attention - very often from the important topic or problem, which in the multitude of appearing content, publications or views, is not grasped by us. Just like in the capitalocene - the problem is so scattered that it is difficult to determine its center.

To the fragile plots our species are thrown

2023 | constantly changing installation in window of Forma Otwarta in Olesnica

The sticks and leaves are nomads. Floating and ubiquitous. They roam the city, surrendering to the will of the wind, landing on sidewalks and squares. They lead their erratic lives bravely, no matter what the circumstances. The changes in my places of life stop surprising me. I inevitably walk between new spaces and addresses. I tame them over and over again when the changing seasons pass in my veins. My fingers are unsuccessfully looking for ground in the fertile soil to take root.

When I touch particles of people and plants, I am surprised by the common tendency to create fragile forms of survival. In a repetitive cycle of constant changes, dispersing into a multitude of diverse states, unpredictability becomes the norm. Meeting among the intertwined fortunes, what is ordinary, is out of control. And the combination of tissue unstable and surprisingly resilient at the same time, nomadically forms a network of such strong connections.

The project was realized during a month’s residency in Forma Otwarta in Olesnica in cooperation with the Art House Foundation, in June 2022.
It combines creating a constantly changing window installation, workshops, and public presentation of the art process

Composition of the Air

2023 | sticks, wood, acrylic and wire

The Air is less transparent than it seems. Carelessly fills the sky while gusts of wind carry various stories. Floating forms, with every breath, they tickle my lungs. I sneeze into the Ether. What hides the space at the distance of our nostrils?

The installation was presented in the Art Room at the Slot Art Festival in an old monastery in Lubiąż, PL.