WGW 2025: With a Splinter in the Palm | Anna Myszkowiak

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WITH A SPLINTER IN THE PALM Anna Myszkowiak 📅 19 - 28.09.2025 Exhibition opening as part of Warsaw Gallery Weekend 2025: https://warsawgalleryweekend.pl/ 📅 19 – 21.09.2025 ⏰ Opening hours: 11:00 – 19:00 In 2025, Anna Myszkowiak graduated from the University of Arts in Poznań, but even during her studies, she gained attention as a sculptor whose works have a profound impact on the senses, consciousness, and emotions of viewers. This power is encapsulated in creations that are minimalistic in form, often fragile and materially delicate, yet uncompromising in their emotional intensity. Myszkowiak takes the viewer beyond their comfort zone – to the borderland where the human body meets the external world. This is a territory where categories such as touch have an ambiguous nature, and the distinction between pleasure and pain, caress and injury becomes blurred. Similarly ambiguous and multidimensional is the way the artist's sculptures are perceived – works in which the tangible becomes visible, and what we see is felt with the whole body. It is no coincidence that skin, hands, as well as eyes, vision, and gaze are recurring points of reference in Myszkowiak's compositions. The artist does not create figurative representations, nor does she lean towards abstraction – her works resemble organisms brought into existence so that we can empathize with them. In constructing her sculptures, she uses a variety of materials – from paper, metal, and wood to industrial materials and everyday objects, utilized and processed in unconventional ways. Regardless of the technique used, the matter in her works always seems to have a living character. The exhibition "Splinter in the Palm" will showcase Anna Myszkowiak's latest creations – works made from materials such as wood, metal, MDF boards, synthetic resin, and steel wool. Each of them represents a bold formal experiment in developing a personal yet universal sculptural language, born from the dialectic of the physical properties of matter and the experience of corporeality. The sculptures do not form a linear narrative – they are rather a sequence of experiences encapsulated in artistic forms, allowing us to touch areas beyond the boundary of verbal concepts, yet fundamental to the ways in which a sentient being experiences its existence in the world. Curator: Stach Szabłowski The event is part of Warsaw Gallery Weekend 2025.