Joanna Tumiłowicz

Obsessions of the modern man

Gallery Lufcik of the House of the Visual Artist OW ZPAP

Exhibition from January 10 to February 2, 2025

Opening at 18:30 on Friday, January 10, 2025

What does the ordinary person fear today? Apparently, the most that they will lose their mobile phone or that they will run out of money. Our obsession is also to reveal the truth against daily lies. Sometimes, anxiety keeps us awake at night, fearing that we will poison ourselves with food or simply gain weight, and also that nature and the climate will take revenge on us for our lack of respect for the earth, water, and air. So, for relative peace, we would prefer to isolate ourselves from everything and everyone that is uncertain and foreign. But there is one thing we cannot avoid, and so we fear it too – death. My imagination revolved around all these obsessions, which I expressed by creating a mask as a symbol of my own uncertainty. And behind the mask stand specific expressions and images.

Joanna Tumiłowicz has an education in mathematics and music and has a significant professional background in each of these fields, including 15 years of work at a scientific institute and then 18 years at the National Philharmonic. In 2013, she obtained a master's degree from the Faculty of Graphic Arts at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, and in 2020 she earned a doctorate in art from the Faculty of Painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw. She has several dozen solo exhibitions in Poland and abroad. Her works are in museums and private collections in Poland, Germany, Russia, Japan, and Italy. She specializes in traditional printing techniques: linocut, drypoint, etching, aquatint, collagraphy, soft varnish, lithography, screen printing. She practices drawing, painting, embroidery, and artistic knitting as well as photography. She is also a music reviewer.