Pani Jurek | Art Warsaw Miodowa 2025

On 13-14 December Craftica Gallery will present works by Pani Jurek at Art Warsaw Miodowa.

Art Warsaw
13-14 December
Miodowa 18
12:00-20:00

The exhibition titled “What a Beautiful Relation” features works from the OP objects series exploring the world of optical phenomena based on the interplay of light, color, form, and human perception. They function as instruments for experimenting with seeing. Once placed in space, they form a living composition in which the presence of the viewer becomes essential. The components of this collection, linked by a subtle web of physical laws, enter into relationships with one another. The elusive nature of these phenomena reveals how fluid the boundary between reality and perception can be.

The OP objects are an invitation to experience seeing as a sensory, mutable, and co-created process. This shared experience is also visible in the dialogue the authors maintain with other visual creators, particularly representatives of the post-war avant-garde, such as Oskar Hansen, Ryszard Winiarski, Zofia Artymowska, and Wojciech Fangor.

At the center of the exhibition stands an openwork partition — OP Wall. Ceramic tiles threaded onto brass rods rotate around their axis, opening or closing the space. The front and back sides constitute two separate images that merge under the influence of touch. Each rotated tile changes the configuration on both sides; as a result, the wall, composed of seventy tiles, creates more possible variations than there are grains of sand on Earth.

An in-situ work placed in the window dividing the exhibition rooms was created specifically for this location. Although the Studio’s objects generally aim toward abstraction, this time two sketches from the authors’ Grójec studio were placed on the rotating tiles. Fragmented, the drawings shift the relationships between elements of the set, forming new meanings. They outline temporary spaces, pointing to the constant motion of the particles that shape our experience. Figurative elements “serve” abstraction — complementing and defending it — in the spirit of Jan Tarasin’s idea: “It is a kind of game in which what is abstract must be almost material, and what is material must move toward abstraction.”