Photo – Sensitivity Dobrawa Borkała

We cordially invite you to join us and the artist, Dobrawa Borkała, to celebrate the opening of her solo show photo-sensitivity. The exhibition is hosted by the andel’s Hotel Łódź and Warimpex Finanz- und Beteiligungs AG, as a part of the project ANDEL’S PRESENTS.

Opening reception on Friday, August 22th, 2014 from 7pm

Sensitivity to light is a source of visual perception. When it comes to human perception, the process ends with an image constructed by the nervous system. Dobrawa asks how the human cognitive apparatus shapes our reality. She trains her mindfulness.

The photo-sensitivity series is an attempt to explore the multi-dimensionality and the continuum of brightness and darkness. The desire to both extract multiple meanings and question them at the same time. Hence the collage work which uses the elements that are already there – arranging them in a simultaneous, non-linear way through lighting.

Dobrawa Borkała born in 1990 in New York, she spent her childhood in Poland. In 2013 the artist graduated in Clinical Psychology from the University of Social Sciences and Humanities (SWPS) in Warsaw. Simultaneously, she studied in École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris, where she is currently working on her dissertation on plant perception.

Borkała creates primarily drawings that serve as notes used to systematize, confront, and accept certain phenomena, short videos which the artist calls ‘moving drawings,’ as well as assemblages where natural forms are combined with trash.

She also realizes artistic actions and runs workshops in a women’s prison in Olszynka Grochowska, Poland, where she works with the detainees on many art projects, including comic book Luna and prisoners’ magazine Grid.

Borkała’s debut exhibition I would like you all to love me was shown in November 2013 in the gallery m2 [m kwadrat] in Warsaw. At the beginning of 2014 the artist showed a solo exhibition in the L’inlassable Galerie Paris which she has collaborated with for the last few years. She has also participated in several group exhibitions, including Drawing Biennial in the Cité internationale des Arts in Paris.

http://dobrawab.blogspot.com/

http://www.m2.art.pl/