2006-2008
Sculpture/Photography
5 photographs, 160 × 70 cm
Digital print; Object: ceramic sculpture 30 × 30 × 60 cm, fired at 1250°C
In the Day and Night series, sculptures are protagonists of stories captured through the lens. Through these spatial forms, I explore the questions that stir within me – posing them and seeking answers. The resulting sculptures – as geometric modules, segments, fragments of the reality of Day – they continually redefine new areas of exploration within their hidden spaces.
Using light, I photograph the histories unfolding over time; the interplay between the unchanging and the transient. These works allow me to enter the inner life of the forms, to discover their Night, and to glimpse the invisible. Their resentation is a meeting of Day and Night – an attempt to understand both oneself and the world we inhabit.
Janina J. Sarzyńska
Reviews
Sculpture and Photography Exhibition
Museum of the Academy of Fine Arts
Wrocław, Poland, April 2008
Janina J. Sarzyńska approaches photography and ceramics in a deeply personal and unconventional manner, bringing considerable creative potential to both of these seemingly distant disciplines. At the exhibition held at the Museum of the Academy of Fine Arts, she presented five works executed in the technique of color photography and a single ceramic object made of terracotta. The photographs depict several –diverse in form and artistic expression – beautiful ceramic sculptures, shown in strong, contrasting light, emerging from a dark background.
It is not immediately apparent that the subject of all the photographs is one and the same form – the very object present in the exhibition – so profoundly does a change in viewpoint alter its image. Janina Sarzyńska’s approach aligns perfectly with Leon Chwistek’s theory of the natural plurality of realities, serving as a confirming commentary. The freshness of vision she proposes allows us to perceive, within the grayness of everyday life, the mysterious element of Art.
Prof. Krystyna Cybińska
Wrocław, Poland, July 2008