Monika Siwińska, Sopot

acrylic, canvas, 97x140cm, 2024

Monika Siwińska is a graduate of the Wladyslaw Strzeminski Academy of Fine Arts in Lodz, Poland. She defended her diploma in interior design in 2014 in the studio of Prof. Marek Janiak. She is involved in both interior design and painting. Currently, her main inspiration is family history and psychological analysis of her ancestors. In her work, she evokes the past, whose boundary blurs between memory and imagination. The artist touches on family relations, but also tries to recreate the feelings of her ancestors, record her own emotions that she feels while leafing through family albums. Talking about ordinary moments that happen to a person, she tries to draw the viewer into a sentimental journey to the most tender memories, but also the greatest traumas. Her latest works are an attempt to answer the question of where we came from.