Zdegradowany pejzaż. Recenzja wystawy Laury Paweli we wrocławskim BWA
Degraded Landscape. Review of Laura Pawela's exhibition at BWA in Wrocław

Summary/Abstract: The article is an attempt to analise hidden meanings in Laura Pawela’s works shown on one of the recent exhibitions of her works presented at the BWA gallery in Wrocław at the beginning of 2009. It is also a reflection on factors that determine dependences within a creative process, which, in varied scales and on different levels, restrict or overmuch regulate the freedom of self expression.The artist exploits in an exceptional way the problem of creative exhaust that implicates despair. It is justified by some literary or known from history of painting examples which have inspired the author (Caspar David Friedrich’s paintings, writings by Kierkegaard, Emil Cioran). The artist contradicts the myth of a romantic creator with a lost contemporary author who, despite his desperation and inability still manages to create. The works that become an oversupply – ‘redundant overproduction’ have undergone specific recycling gaining the status of new works liberated from any formal and matter aspects of ‘rejected works’ they have been made of. Valueless pictures, cut empty canvas stretchers and their pieces hung on jewelry chains, eyes made of cut canvas pieces on white canvas, collages with images of teeth, intestines, a house, a skull resemble symbols of elements of a daily physiology of being an artist. It seems that comprehending the way of being an artist in present times may become more and more helpful in the reflection over hybridity of attitudes that slip away traditional theoretical tools judging the condition of our culture and ourselves.

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