Kamila
Kamińska

An in-depth analysis of the objects that are then blended into the painting matter has led me to dispute with painting as such and the perception of an image solely as an object. In my art, canvas is a kind of skin – a shell, which has its singular, unique papillae and porosity, and just like human skin is subject to the passing of time and the laws of biology. I portray human skin in the most tragic moments of existence and create a being that coats the body – mimetic clothing. The linen canvas I use is a fabric that can become a painting or clothing, but also a shroud; every step of the way, it accompanies and brushes against the body. Usually, it is a properly sewn fabric that takes the shape of a body, but here, transformed into clothing, it involuntarily assumes the shape of the loom and is a metaphor of a human, expressing absence thereof.