SEEING AND UNSEEING

October 2022

Asia Bakalarska (Polish, b. 1975) is a London-based artist and works primarily within the medium of painting. Her work explores the notion of self-representation and identity. These richly colourful and carefully composed paintings are saturated with the presence of the subjects, existing or imagined. Through her practice, Bakalarska ponders on the fragility of human identity and how identities are created in private and public spaces.

Her latest body of work is a continuation of her fascination with the human figure and the way we construct the multiple selves on the internet and social networks. These figures, frequently portrayed in surreal or unfamiliar settings, give way to an alternate reality. Her first solo show ‘Between You and Me’ will open at Ten Gresham Street, London in 2022.

Born in Poland in 1981, Marek Olszewski has been living and working in London since 2006. Obtained his photographic diploma at RACC in Richmond upon Thames in 2011, however, he is mainly a self-taught photographer, continuously experimenting and discovering new ways of expression. He is attracted to non-obviousness, light and shadow play, movement, reflection, geometry and extreme minimalism. Member of Free Painters and Sculptors collective (founded in 1952 in London), Association of Polish Art Photographers (ZPAF, founded in 1947 in Warsaw) and Association of Polish Artists in Great Britain (APA UK, founded in 1950's in London).

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