Artist Statement

 

My practice operates at the threshold where control begins to fail.

I construct abstract paintings through tension: instinct against structure, accumulation against reduction, precision against rupture. What appears immediate is repeatedly interrupted, restrained, and reorganized. The image is not resolved. It is held in a state of active instability.

Working through stratified chromatic fields, I build surfaces that function less as compositions and more as systems of force. Dense impasto accumulations, graphite interruptions, fluorescent pigments, neon tensions, and linear incursions collide across the surface, generating friction between compression and exposure. Color does not operate symbolically or decoratively. It behaves as pressure.

Layers accumulate as physical weight. They obscure, fracture, and destabilize one another, producing surfaces that resist visual equilibrium. Matte passages are interrupted by aggressively luminous pigment; controlled structures are pushed toward collapse. Order is introduced only to be contested.

The process is physical. The canvas moves continuously between wall and floor, and the body becomes part of the painting’s construction. Gesture is not treated as expression, but as material force — constrained, edited, and subjected to the discipline of the image itself.

What remains is controlled instability.

Thin linear traces cut through dense chromatic mass. Precision collides with excess. Structure does not eliminate chaos; it sustains tension without allowing either condition to dominate.

These paintings function as fields of perceptual pressure rather than narrative space. They do not describe. They act.

This work does not seek resolution. It maintains contradiction as a structural condition, holding perception in a state of continual negotiation.

WIKTORIA FLOREK
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