The series of collages entitled A Wing Moved by Fingers was created between March and September 2020 as a result of a processual activity. They are made of used and reclaimed PVC tiles. The old, dilapidated, damaged floor became the starting point for telling different stories. The images used in the collages come from books and albums found in antique shops. The author explained: “I tried to create a multithreaded story of a life constructed of remembered and forgotten bits and pieces. I wanted the series to resemble fragments of a sky that has broken into a million pieces and is now seemingly impossible to put back together. A Wing Moved by Fingers is a series of almost a hundred pieces. All elements that appear on the tiles – people, flora, fauna, architecture, nature, the cosmos – interpenetrate and complement each other in new, hybrid forms. Covered with a transparent resin that protects the tiles from further disintegration, the frozen images, trapped like an insect in amber, wait to be moved by our thoughts and fantasies just like the titular wing.”
O artystce
Magdalena Łazarczyk, born 1985, graduated photography at the University of Arts Poznań (2013) and Media Art at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw (2015), where she defended her diploma in Prof. Mirosław Bałka’s Studio of Spatial Activities. Together with Zuza Golińska, she forms the performative duo, TWINS. With Łukasz Sosiński, she runs ROD – – Realny Obszar Działań [Real Area of Activities] – an artist-run-space in Rodzinne Ogródki Działkowe (ROD, or Family Allotment Gardens) in Warsaw. She experiments with video, photography, installation, and performative actions. She lives and works in Warsaw.
