The work was constituted by two objects (the painterly diptych), the first one – “Image” – a heavy canvas repainted with many layers of red paint, and the second one – “Outrage” – a multileveled structure of dozens superimposed canvases interlaid with glue, priming and red oil paint. These objects were arranged to face each other. The “Image” remained homogenous, dense, sealed, whereas the “Outrage” composed a complex structure, heavy and decompound.
During the time of performance, the artist was standing between the objects and tearing off consecutive layers of the “Outrage”, with her back to the “Image”, understood as an ideal that was the exact antithesis of the “Outrage”. By this action the artist penetrates and purifies the conception of painting, while simultaneously exposing the piled-up, encrusted structure of the accumulated ideas and theories about it.
REALIZED THANKS TO THE MARSHAL OFFICE OF THE WIELKOPOLSKA PROVINCE GRANT
Photos: Tomasz Drewicz, Marek Glinkowski, Natalia Niedziela
Translation: Hanna Piątkiewicz