Suche oczy I Dry eyes [solo] Elbląg

Centrum Sztuki Galeria El, Elbląg
23.11.2023 - 14.01.2024
 
online: Suche oczy I Dry eyes [solo] Elbląg at Centrum Sztuki Galeria El

Suche oczy | Dry eyes

23.11.2023 – 14.01.2024

kuratorka| curator: Emilia Orzechowska

Przepracowywanie traum przypomina chodzenie po spirali. Czasami wydaje się, że wracamy do punktu wyjścia, ale jesteśmy w nowej płaszczyźnie traumy, która wcześniej była niedostępna do zbadania. Nowa wystawa Marty Szulc „Suche oczy” jest kontynuacją jej wcześniejszych poszukiwań i pracy z wypartymi emocjami. Tytuł wskazuje na cechę traumy, którą jest niemożność zobaczenia, jaka jest rzeczywistość, ponieważ przeżywane wydarzenia są zbyt bolesne, aby je przyjąć. Ta forma ślepoty jest samoobroną, czasami jedyną możliwością uratowania siebie.

Trauma processing is like walking in a spiral. Sometimes it seems like we are going back to the starting point, but we are in a new plane of trauma that was previously inaccessible for exploration. Marty Szulc’s new exhibition “Dry Eyes” is a continuation of her previous explorations and work with repressed emotions. The title refers to a feature of trauma, which is the inability to see reality as it is, because the experienced events are too painful. This form of blindness is self-defense, sometimes the only way to save oneself.

 

exhibition view [Twarzoczaszka I A facial part of cranium, 200×200 cm, 2023, soft pastel]
exhibition view

 

SOMETIMES I HAVE A FEELING OF EMPTY
exhibition view //detail

Sometimes I feel a sense of emptiness. A huge hole in my stomach.
It sucks me in where my heart should be.”

exhibition view //detail

 

 

exhibition view

 

exhibition view [Body culture I, II III]
exhibition view

 

exhibition view [Alice, 2022]
 
exhibition view [Little Mum, 2022, no title (great-great-grand), 2023]

no title (great-great-grand), 2023, oil on canvas

 

exhibition view

 

exhibition view [no title, 2024]
 
exhibition view [Swing 2023, Three women 2022]

Swing 2023, oil on canvas
exhibition view [Dry eyes series 2023]
Dry eyes . Self-portrait I, 2023, soft pastel

 

exhibition view [Dry eyes series, selfportraits]
 
exhibition view [Dry eyes series]
 
exhibition view [Abyss 2023, Dolls 2022]

Abyss, 2023, oil on canvas

 

exhibition view [Dry eyes series 2023, Dolls 2022]
exhibition view

I don’t want to see what’s happening around me.
I want to be transparent.
It’s safer to be quiet,
it’s safer to be nice,
it’s safer not to want.
If I’m sad, it means something is wrong with me.
After all, the world is so beautiful? Why don’t you smile?

exhibition view [Tangle 2023, no title (great-great-grand) 2023]
 
exhibition view [Tangle 2023, Dry eyes . Tangle 2023]

Tangle 2023, oil on canvas