Aleksandra Polak (Polietyda Gwiżdż)

An intermedia creator working at the intersection of painting and sculpture. In her artistic practice, she uses found objects and urban waste, regarding them as collectors of human intimacy. She employs the interiors of old furniture or bedsheets as alternatives to the traditional canvas, as it is important to her that the chosen surfacet already carries emotional weight even before her intervention.

She believes that every artwork is created anew and fully through the act of its reception, it is at that moment that narratives and layers of meaning previously unnoticed are revealed. For this reason, from her perspective, the viewer is the most important element in the creative process.