Grazyna Tereszkiewicz
INTIMATE GEOGRAPHY

opening: 02.07.2010, 6:00 p.m. Small Gallery, Slupsk, 31a, Partyzantow Street
The exhibition will be open till 29.08.2010

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Grazyna Tereszkiewicz works in cycles. In her paintings, photographs and video artworks, as well as in performances she refers to the issues of (non)anchoring and (un)identity in the aspect of passing-by and changing lingual games - topography, geography and all other graphies...
The project Intimate Geography has come into being during the last two years. In that project the artist clearly tried to include the summary of her aesthetical investigations and mental experiences connected with constructing (and testing) the ideas of carnality and identity. These areas are shown by the artist as the matrices of image, exemplified literally and metaphorically in the canvas. In the artist’s hands it becomes a text and a medium at the same time, where the ephemeral and accidental character of human existence is reflected along with all its requisites. The canvas plays the role of shroud, imaging the spaces of intimacy. It is composed of the articulated and memorised (or forgotten) maps, orientation points, traces, signposts and lodestars. All of them are symbols which, as we can say after Shunryu Suzuki, reveal from the void and get back again to the void... The harnessed carnality and its connected rituals find their emblematic reflection in painting, photography and action art. They are gestures and figures that often refer to the symbols and archetypes connected with transgression; in them only a thin line separates life from death, silence from shout, and nothingness from the form. By means of their epiphanies – just like by means of working on Zen koan – one can probably come through the gate of an affirmative void...

Roman Lewandowski

Grazyna Tereszkiewicz was born in 1967. In the years 1992-1997 she studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Poznan, graduating from its faculty of painting. She used art therapy methods in her work with educationally troublesome children, and then she also worked as a journalist, an author of art programmes and the chief editor at the Polsat television network, Jelenia Gora branch. In the years 2009-2010 she collaborated with Klima Bochenska gallery in Warsaw. Her work as a curator included the group exhibition Blue (at the Artistic Milieu Gallery in Bielsko-Biala and at the Small Gallery of the Baltic Contemporary Art Gallery in Slupsk) and A Dozen or So Koans on (non)existence (at the Small Gallery of the Baltic Contemporary Art Gallery in Slupsk and at the BWA Gallery in Jelenia Gora). She cultivates painting, photography, performance and video art.