Tawczynski’s thrilling, sculptural collage-cum-installations often read as paintings— albeit, paintings which insert themselves into the physical, material space of the body. The human body, and bodies much larger than ours.
Her ambitious treatment of our pithy three dimensions offers a strange gaze at a faraway place, but brought nearby, as if by magic (although not one of wands, unless you count her brush, and shears).
Symbol-ridden cosmos.
“My work has grown in a lot of different directions from small sculpture to landscape painting, printmaking and collage. These days I’m making large paper-based works that are painted, cut up and collaged together, and installed with various material on the walls and floor.”
Viewers may see a map, reflected in watery surface, being sucked through the thin neck of a klein bottle. Is it a quest, or a call? A portrait of a place, or an ætheric entity?
Figurative, landscape, abstract and astronomical. All at once.
