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Obsessions

Barbara Palka-Winek’s Obsessions are a
series of the artist’s most direct and personal
expressions. Obsession is not a delusion but
a state of consciousness in which feelings
are selected. We want to free ourselves from
some of them and oppose the other. Art makes
an effort to meet the needs of this internal
experience.

The artist’s obsessions revolve around human
affairs. The archetype of a woman reappears in
this series as the artist herself is a woman and
knows best the human pain a woman can feel.

It is, however, not a series of human affairs
expressed e.g. in social tragedies that is
important for Barbara Palka-Winek but the
“inside” of a human being. The artist records
these phenomena and tries to give them
names. They include Wild Orchids looking as if
they were hidden behind a screen of a human
body, Fobiotures “crawling” with fantastic
animals, Tango penetrated by a vertical eye of
a demiurge and Coconida – a woman tied up in
a cocoon, the mirror in Little Fobiosa reflects
her obsessions and Creatures present one of
several women exposed to the wind.

The original form of this record that embraces
the artist’s all works makes us classify her art
as a separate and special phenomenon in the
Polish modern painting.
Henryk Pyka PhD

LUX QUAM UMBRA, 2010 OWN TECHNIQUE ON CANVAS
78.5X39 IN. | 140X100 CM. 
 MENTAL IMAGO, 2010 OWN TECHNIQUE ON CANVAS
78.5X55 IN. | 200X140 CM.
 ARCHETYPE OF WOMEN VI, 2010 OWN TECHNIQUE ON
CANVAS 78.5X39 IN. | 140X100 CM.
 MENTAL SCREEN, 2011 OWN TECHNIQUE ON CANVAS
78.5X55 IN. | 200X140 CM.
 METAMORPHOSEA, 2009 OWN TECHNIQUE ON CANVAS
78.5X39 IN. | 140X100 CM.

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