Łukasz Dziedzic

Lives and works in Kraków, Poland

Artist statement

My practice spans painting, sound, video and installation, with painting becoming increasingly central in recent years. I explore how personal experience intersects with collective history, and how images, objects and places carry memory. Questions of identity, displacement and power connect my work across different media. I draw on family photographs, everyday images, public archives, documents and representations shaped by colonial histories. Through selection, transformation and juxtaposition, I explore how these materials influence our understanding of ourselves and others. I am interested in the tensions between intimacy and public narratives, recognition and uncertainty, visual attraction and unease. The material and sensory qualities of each medium are central to my work. In painting, colour, composition, layering and surface shape the experience of looking. Sound and installation allow me to work with space, duration and the relationships between objects, images and voices. In my recent series Borderline, landscape paintings are paired with factual texts about specific places marked by conflict, migration or geopolitical pressure. These texts are integral parts of the works. The paintings and texts operate in different registers: one through colour, light and atmosphere, the other through geographical and historical information. The tension between them is central to the series. Across my practice, I return to the relationship between what we encounter and what we...

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