Wieslawa Nowicka

Sleepy Conversations

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SLEEPY CONVERSATIONS, which questions the disappearance of contact between all-powerful and fragile Nature and humans, the latter seeking a lost relationship in a dreamlike space, is a multidisciplinary project that brings together a series of paintings and engravings, as well as a video, resulting from work on site in Norway (2024).

The project is inspired by research on the environment and the relationship between humans and nature, a testament to the current events we are currently experiencing (or losing). However, the Arctic territories demonstrate the problem that concerns us all: that of global warming, which is more visible.

The rights and limits that are imposed on us. The histories, the contexts, the power plays that have influenced our lives, the once wildlands. How do we find ourselves within our limits, what is our place? Faced with this overexploitation of wealth and emancipation of the earth by man, the destructive power of Nature takes shape. Through dreams, I try to rebuild this destroyed relationship.

Wieslawa Nowicka 

Polish artist based in Paris, Wieslawa Nowicka explores the connections between memory, space, and the body through her multidisciplinary work.

With degrees in art, cinema, and cultural sociology, she draws inspiration from history, anthropology, and psychoanalysis to question the perception of time and space. Her artistic universe draws on the atmosphere of unusual places, traces of the body, and the influence of industrialization on nature. She develops a dreamlike and sensory approach, where human and environmental memory blends with a reflection on vulnerability and intimacy.

Through painting, photography, printmaking, and video, Wieslawa Nowicka captures suspended moments, inspired by night, sleep, and the atmosphere of forgotten spaces. Her work questions the relationship between humans and nature, memory, and past or imagined connections. 

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