Aleksandra Wiechowska Atlantis. The Memory ot Lost Paradise

supervisor: prof. Andrzej Węcławski
Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw
Faculty of Graphic Arts

biography

born in 1994

Diploma in the Studio of Concept and Intermedia Graphics [Facuity of Graphics, Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw). lam an experimenter, I combine many styles and techniques of graphics and painting. In my work, I touch upon the issues of my own unconsciousness. Often I gropingly search for the best path to visualize the desires and the longings that Ile dormant inside me. I mostly use the screen printing technique since it gives me the best opportunity to att instinctively. My works are unconventional, they fall beyond the definitions of the techniques used. Their main goal is to convey thoughts, emotions, transfer We recipient to the unreality of my choice. Three individual and seven group exhibitions. 3rd-degree award of the Minister of Foreign Affairs for the graphics designed to be exhibited in the premises of Polish diplomatic missions.

self-commentary

I imagined the Atlantis myth could be a memory of the lost Paradise. Mircea Eliade, In his book Pictures and symbols, wrote: „Even the most primitive longing conceals a longing for paradise”. The gigantic graphic is a total image, i.e. an idea of something complete, absolute, about the universe. it is a picture of the moment when we realize that everything that surrounds us is not the only reality of our existence. Touching with this unknown makes us realize that although modern philosophy claims we most probably have everything we need, there still remains a premonition, a hunch, an unexplained feeling that something is missing. An unquenchable, formless longing. The remaining graphics seem to form maps, notes of a seeker of the lost Atlantis, their sketches, and imaginations. Each of the prints Is individual and unique, like a fleeting thought about a longed for vision that is bard to imagine.