I am an interdisciplinary artist interested in the art that flirts with design and crafts, and marries different fields of science and life in general. The art that engages in public debate and interferes in world’s affairs. I’m attracted to the process of all these fields penetrating each other, making momentary pacts or conflicts, and negotiating.
I am an author of installations, objects and sculptures, videos, site-specific projects, and social-artistic initiatives. I often use ceramics which I see as a medium lying between the sacrum and the profanum. I care for a substance I work with. I don’t dominate it. I listen. Working silently. Slowly.
My artwork is a critical discussion with the traditional view of the world and looking what is underneath of its facade. It is engaging in being in this world. I’m interested in issues that are pushed to the social and cultural margins. In the most possible gentle way that is comfortable for me I break through the barrier of a taboo. I tell a story about what’s hard, what’s stuck in a throat, and what we tend to turn our heads away from.
I look for differences and contrasts. I’m fascinated by the tensions on borders between internal and external, private and public, noble and ordinary, delicious and disgusting, strong and weak, innocent and oppressive. I look for similarities reinforcing a sense of community. I am sensitive to the barely perceptible connections between elements that only appear to be distant from one another.
I move in a microscale – it could be called a microdosing of the world. I am moved by things that are small, events that are quiet, and by voices that are trembling, like potato peels, sprinkling sand away from a child’s shoes, tears of women. I give my personal stories a universal dimension, thereby commenting on broader phenomena – social, political and environmental. I address the topics of human relationships, and connections between people, nature and material worlds.
I have more questions than answers. When I’m getting lost, I dig a hole in the ground with my hands, and reach down to the roots.
Photos: Małgorzata Kujda
