Anna Grzymała Making Friends, 2024

Anna Grzymała (b. 1997), is based between Warsaw and Ostrów Wielki, Poland. She is a graduate of the Painting Faculty of the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw. The laureate of the Entry Initiative. Awarded with NN6T, Contemporary Lynx and Royal Talens distinctions at “NOWY OBRAZ/NOWE SPOJRZENIE competition. Nominated for MOSKITY K MAG Art Prize. Finalist of 20th edition of Hestia Artistic Journey awarded with third prize, a residency at Sokołowsko International Culture Laboratory.

Grzymała’s work is featured in A PROFECÍA. Curated by Filipka Rutkowska as a continuation of Casa Filipka – an ongoing project organized together with Her Clique – A PROFECÍA is centered on an envisioned future through the female gaze; one that enables a more empowered, speculative relation to both time and space, plant, landscape, and animal; one that breaks the brutality of dualistic thinking and binary structures and replaces them with a spectrum, acknowledging and honoring the and rather than the or. Following principles of transfuturism, and emerging from histories like that of Casa Susanna, this exhibition is a frame for repositioning one's own body as the intermediary for a more intuitive knowledge; a knowledge that doesn’t make assumptions but rather listens, looks, smells, tastes, hears, feels, orients, and balances. A knowledge that doesn’t require eyes for seeing but presupposes sentience, non-human intelligence, time, cycles, and the fluidity of being (in its broadest possible definition), and exists within a continuum of experiences and knowledge, through-out (non-linear) time. And as this knowledge becomes accumulated and disseminated, and as personal mythologies merge with predominant norms, feminist histories, ecologies and states of being, through rose-tinged utopian lenses we divine a centered space that is Other – healing, forgiving, holistic, transparent, and visible – in and of itself.