Magdalena Sawicka: Essays
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Artist: Magdalena Sawicka
Porcelain doll
It was an old apartment in Krakow, with dark brown, heavy, coffin-like furniture. Some of the things were piled up in the central part of the room, like sawdust pulled out of an old doll.
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Artist: Magdalena Sawicka
Two drawings
I like to stop in front of these pictures. I have a few at home which have to be committed to memory again and again, because they keep slipping out, with their mysterious, unobvious or perverse motifs, with the provocative tension between the narrative they contain and the form.
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Artist: Magdalena Sawicka
Touch
Desire, ecstasy, and suffering are the strongest moments when you become aware of your carnality, the feeling of physicality. In Magdalena Sawicka’s drawings, the physicality is present in the trickles of semen on the lips, a turgid penis, wet stains on girls’ panties, cut and bruised hands and tearful faces.