Taste of joy 

Oryginal tittle: „Smak radości”

(2025)

 

 

30 x 18 x 16 cm

Alabaster

 

Photo: Wojtek Ciszkiewicz

In the installation The Taste of Joy, the artist continues the exploration begun in her sculpture Mamma, created for the Malta Biennale 2024. This series of several dozen alabaster sculptures resembles both animal udders and the shapes of popular gummy sweets. The breast motif is a primal, cross-species symbol of motherhood, care, vitality and life. It is also a metonym for the planetary water environment – interweaving, connecting bodies, creating new, diverse forms of life. The noble material and form of the sculptures are reminiscent of Paleolithic Venus figurines, known as fertility goddesses. 

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These are contrasted with the brutal, mechanical production line that churns out colourful gummy sweets made from the bones, skins and tendons of farmed animals. For the artist, they represent the contemporary livestock industry and the extractivism that treats animal bodies as raw materials for production. They symbolise consumerism, pop culture and capitalism, which produces ‘sweet and pleasant’ products without regard to their environmental cost or health impact.

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Mammals and Suckers

oryginal tittle: “Mammals and Suckers”

 

Hos Gallery, Warsaw, 2025

Curator: Michalina Sablik

Photo: Wojtek Ciszkiewicz, Piotr Szmyt

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