A graduate of Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków, she works at Faculty of Arts of University of Rzeszów. She cooperates with BWA Gallery in Warsaw. She is a laureate of Jan Cybis Prize (2013) and Katarzyna Kobro Award (2015). She had individual exhibitions in such institutions as: Galeria Foksal in Warsaw (1998, 2001), Zachęta – National Gallery of Art in Warsaw (1999, 2002, 2006), Bunkier Sztuki in Kraków (2003), Galeria Kronika in Bytom (2004), Atlas Sztuki in Łódź (2005), Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle in Warsaw (1997, 2006), Galeria Starmach in Kraków, Arsenal Gallery in Białystok (2006), Galeria Biała in Lublin (2008, 2011), Galeria Czarna in Warsaw (2007), Ego in Poznań (2008), Delikatesy in Kraków (2010), Extravagance Gallery in Sosnowiec (2012), Black Gallery in Warsaw (2013), BWA Warsaw (2014, 2018), ZPAP in Warsaw (2015), and BWA in Olsztyn (2017). She lives in Przemyśl.
Jadwiga Sawicka
“Nights and Days”, 2019
stop motion, 00’58”
Jadwiga Sawicka creates paintings, photographs, objects, and text installations. In many of her paintings on canvas appears painted word or text. Sometimes her works consist of a series of words-pictures arranged in one installation. The words the artist chooses are often strongly emotional and strongly resonate through social or personal context. “Nights and Days” work is a video that reflects the principle of the artist’s painting practice in a good manner. The NIGHT OF MIND, PLAGUES OF THE DAY inscription on the walls of an empty interior is the artistic gesture of the artist. Its form resembles a “stray” inscription made at the time of bitter reflection as an act of helplessness or a dramatic call for vigilance. As the artist herself puts it: “Various types of disasters, the effects of which we experience in the cold light of a new day, have their beginnings in relaxation, which will be called only resting on our laurels, lack of imagination, and short-sightedness. But one can’t live in constant vigilance, constantly analyse, put oneself in someone’s position, trying to understand. The mind needs rest: attention is distracted, signals are ignored, mistakes are not pointed out, and facts are not associated; longer and longer moments of relaxation go into a pleasant sleep. Reason likes to sleep – only that is when monsters are born…”.
