Untitled, 2024
Medium: Tapestry
Dimensions: 33" x 56" [84 cm x 143 cm]
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Description
Pelka Atys (b. 1995 ) is a contemporary artist and graphic designer based in Poland. Her projects often result from long research, taking shape in different mediums, like textile, installation, painting, and artistic publications. Atys graduated cum laude with a Master’s degree from the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw (Faculty of Graphic Arts).
Engaging in interdisciplinary initiatives, Atys explores themes of identity, myth, creation, imagination, articulating the ineffable. In the process of working on a project, the artist blends artistic techniques to achieve the optimal realization of the concept.
Atys’ 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.