The Lives of Animals

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“It is true that animals are usually not able to participate in their liberation, but they behave differently when they are liberated and have better living conditions.”
— Speaking Beyond Language: Lin May Saeed Interviewed

Aleksandra Waliszewska

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08 June - 24 September 2024
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Aleksandra Waliszewska is a Polish painter known for her fabulous, dis­tinctive, figurative and highly narrative style that draws on the traditions of Symbolism, Slavic folklore and Flemish painting. Her works feature female figures, phantoms, zombies, bloodthirsty monsters and mythological creatures, combining the fictional and the real. Her animal protagonists often possess human traits, are capable of playing instruments or smoking cigarettes, or have human facial expressions. A char­acteristic feature of her paintings is also the intertwining of eroticism with the death drive. 
The oil paintings in the exhibition depict mythological characters, dragons and hybrids, some of which are part animal, part female.

 ©   Aleksandra Waliszewska. Photography by Kristien Daem

Exhibited works: 

Untitled, 2023
Untitled, 2023
Untitled, 2023
Untitled, 2023
Courtesy Aleksandra Waliszewska en LETO, Warsaw

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