Press Release, July 2022

Polish/Danish Artist Malwina Migacz’s main area of research is the relationship between control and domination on the one side, and on the other side an unregulated state that finds its way through ruptures. Through her works Migacz searches for human circumstances and loci in the (political, cultural, social) systems that we build around ourselves and explores the domination that we seek to extend over our environment (man towards nature and the mental state).

Migacz is an author of works that are often based on the phenomenon of dissociation, a mental state characterized by a tendency to ignore and violate social norms and the rights of other people. She works with diverse media such as textiles, cement, powdered metals, plaster, ash, video, 3D animation, painting, or photography. She has also been active in the fields of performance art and sound art which often combine with her installations, producing an effect of dissonance, misunderstanding, and lack of logic which then becomes a state of derealization. As can be seen in her earlier exhibitions, she has often worked with the motif of the horse. The horse is a symbol of nature, wildness and freedom that humanity has always sought to suppress and tame. The reins, the curb bit and the whip are means of control. Instruments are made of leather and iron. Mankind has to tame and control nature in order to get closer to it. Migacz became interested in the relationship between these forces. 

In domination we can feel freedom, in a desire to tame we sense wildness.

Opening: Friday the 5th of August, 5-8pm.
Exhibition period: August 6 - August 14, 2022.
Opening hours: Thursday-Sunday: 2-5pm.