2023
oil on canvas
130 × 200 cm
Starting bid: 5 000 zł
Bidding opens on 22 May and closes on the evening of 8 June, hosted on the platform of the event’s strategic partner, Polswiss Art Auction House.
Zuzanna Szary investigates subtle relationships, often between species, and questions boundaries—both physical and metaphysical—delving into the moments when humans dissolve into their environment and the natural world. Her monumental painting Storm belongs to a series exploring the concept of home, rendered in the artist’s signature sensual, dreamlike style that merges figurative painting with elements of abstraction. It depicts an intimate scene of two women indoors, while a tempest rages outside. The work simultaneously conveys the overwhelming force of nature and the emotional turbulence playing out within the home’s walls.
A central point in Szary’s practice is the articulation of space—particularly spaces that are primal or safe. The artist marks thresholds, seeking rites of passage between interior and exterior worlds. It’s because I often dream about homes of strangers, houses I’ve never been to. In my dreams, I rarely find attics, but I do find cellars—sometimes filled with water, she writes in the curatorial text accompanying her exhibition I Dream of the Houses of Unknown People at UFO Art Gallery.
Zuzanna Szary (b. 1995) works primarily in oil on canvas and ceramic sculpture. A graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków, she has exhibited at institutions such as BWA Ostrowiec Świętokrzyski and the Museum of Contemporary Art MOCAK in Kraków. In 2022, she received the Grand Prix of the Magdalena Abakanowicz Award from the University of the Arts in Poznań.
