Mariusz Maślanka Mimicries

supervisor: dr. hab. Aleksandra Janik
Academy of Fine Arts in Wroclaw
Faculty of Graphic and Media Art

biography

born in 1992

diploma in the Studio of Digital and Experimental Prinjng at Eugeniusz Geppert Academy of Art and Design in Wrocław. The artist creates objects and installations intervening in prosaic objects and motives taken from the landscape of everyday life. An important element of his practice is a reflection on the functioning of economic, social and ecological models. Number of solo exhibitions 7. Number of group exhibitions 33. The most important awards: Nominajon, Gazeta Wyborcza WARTO Award, Visual Arts - 2019; Arjsjc scholarship, Wrocław Council - 2018; Award, the program for the Promojon of Young Creators of Culture, Katowice City Hall - 2016.

self-commentary

By undertaking actions based on the broadly understood phenomenon of mimicry, the artist tells the story about the condition of modern man as an integral element of the degraded ecosystem. The effects of the irresponsible use of natural resources by mankind and the stunning expansion of its activity, which was to have a positive impact on life on Earth, can be compared to a state of psychedelic psychosis, where the symptoms are: genetic mutations, weather anomalies, ecological disasters... We no longer distinguish reality from imitation - we ourselves have become a memory of what we used to call Nature. The permanent state of psychedelic crisis has deprived us of the opportunity to return. A world constructed with violence gives us only what it can, and thus catastrophic visions are aspiring to the name of beauty. Therefore, we are looking at what hid so far in the crevices of anthropocentric reality. Living fast in many worlds at the same Kme, we exist too shortly to explore and understand or even notice the logos that surround us. Bad dreams will pass, but everything we experience will stay with us until the end.