I don't want to talk about myself because
I admit I did that somewhat in these works
but I think that one of the functions of my artistic activity is to help go beyond ourselves, this is why my activity is a play with limits of my own language.
My works were born from my curiosity about the idea of transgression... from risk, born from excess, and also from time when drawing was the only way I expressed what I felt. I really want to be pushed out of my comfort zone, out of my a priori. I want to understand why we do what we do, and this is why my artistic activity also reflects my feelings about dialectics code in my own language like love vs. hate, humanity vs nature, sexuality vs. inviolability, sexuality vs. identity, individual identity vs. society, power vs. sexuality, power vs. language, seen vs. unseen, reality vs. illusion, coherent vs. incoherent, risk vs. comfort, black vs white and more...
I want art that already has its own clear Meaning and is its own clear "prize", its own pleasure and passion of Surpassing; that is how the subject is translated from the "bottom of the language" and not from what's external, idiomatic expression being a sure-fire hit that enables every plastic gesture (gesture of a plastic meaning) to be even more violent and in dialectic opposition to what may have been drippy before; a plastic gesture that urges to get beyond the dialectics of fear from fall and lack of novelties, beyond safe and ready-made construction of understanding...
andrzej chmiel - updated June 20, 2013, 4:35 p.m.