"Just as there is an archetype of woman as the object of man's eternal love, so there must be an archetype of woman as the object of his eternal fear..."
Fumiko Enchi "The Mask"
“Bound by Blood” is a series of work that takes from Japanese mythology, literature and spirituality as a core of the artistic explorations. Between the uncanny dreams and surreal tale, Skowrońska’s paintings guide the viewer into the ambiguity of world, relationships and femininity perceived as a fusion of beauty and hostility. Drawing on the work of the Japanese writer Fumiko Enchi, in this series of paintings, femininity is presented in the form of an organic motif, repeated in each of the works, in an almost obsessive, yet at the same time controlled and ambiguous way. The work is fluid and reject binary divisions of the perception of the world, between matter and energy, body and mind, space and time, male and female, human and non-human things.
Curated by Marta Krajenta
Art Flow House Gallery, Warsaw
05.04 - 05.07.2022
