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Sylwia Kowalczyk at Blue Sky Gallery

December 7, 2017 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

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“Lethe is the river that cleanses Dante in Purgatory, the one that wipes memories of the dead as they drink from it or bathe in it. The poet Sylvia Plath steps up from ‘the black car of Lethe, Pure as a baby’. It is an escape, a relief from our own physical limitations.”

In her collage-based portrait series, Sylwia Kowalczyk visualizes the often disjointed, piecemeal process of recalling the past. Each image is constructed using layers of cut and torn images that are re-photographed and enlarged. Just as our memories tend to change over time, Lethe illustrates how information can become compressed and distorted by the mind but still accepted as truth. Kowalczyk’s aesthetic focus on texture and materials, as well as the prominence of the human figure in each frame also suggests that this process of remembering is very much a sensory, embodied experience that cannot be divorced from the material world.

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Date:
December 7, 2017
Time:
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Venue

Blue Sky Gallery
122 NW 8th Avenue
Portland, OR 97209 United States
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Phone:
503-225-0210
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