Ewelina Sosniak
A graduate of Graphics Department at the Academy of Fine Arts in Wrocław. A scholar at Tokyo University of Fine Arts and Music (Japan). A laureate of numerous competitions and participant of country and foreign exhibitions. Her creative practice encompasses painting, graphic design and illustration. She lives and works in Warsaw.
The works of Ewelina Sosniak are characterised by a tendency of ordering reality and then deconstructing it. Her painting uses motives from early computer games and depicts them using expressive, strong colours. She creates platforms, unreal, abstract spaces, and compares the creative process to the mechanism of the game. The surface of a canvas is a kind of diagram, the board, a record of the entire act of creation. What can be observed is tangible proof of a clash, a game between the picture and the artist’s intention.
“I am fascinated with the geometry that orders forms. I care also about the idea and story behind every painting I’m working on. I am very emotional in the creation process. That’s why I call it “working in process”, because in every step I try to verify the result. When all the “painting tissue” is created, then I try to find the right order for its significant elements. Somebody told me once that my paintings look like design. Maybe it’s because I play with typography, shapes, meanings, scale, etc and they look like they were designed in every tiny detail. When I look at my canvas while I’m painting, it’s like a huge explosion of forms, colours, lines without any common denominator. But when I feel that it is messy enough, I start to clean. This is the continuous deconstructing and ordering things. My role as a painter is to find the right order. I eliminate everything which is not necessary to obtain a pure essence of the image.”