Sabina WOŹNICA (b. 1977), Universe and Observer, 2017

oil, gold, canvas; 73 x 92 cm;
Signed, dated and described on the reverse:
Universe and observer / oil, gold on canvas / Universe / and observer / gold and oil on canvas / 73 x 92 / 2017 / SWoźnica.

Artist, painter, performer. She completed her studies at the European Academy of Arts in Warsaw, where she graduated with honors in 2002. She is a recipient of the Tadeusz Kulisiewicz Award and a scholarship from the Marshal of the Silesian Voivodeship for her activities in the field of culture.
The artist's individual exhibitions were held, among others: at Kunstraumprojekte Ewigkeitsgasse in Vienna, at the TPSP Gallery in Warsaw, the Royal Łazienki Park, the Powszechny Theater in Warsaw, the Krystyna Bochenek Cultural Center in Katowice, the Malopolska Garden of Art, under the auspices of the J. Słowacki Theater in Cracow, the Cervantes Institute in Cracow, and the Baltic Dramatic Theater in Koszalin.
(source: artemis.art.pl)

"Sabina Woznica's painting worlds exemplify the synergy of the expressive form of the work and the multiplicity of meanings flowing from the artist's personal reflections. Regardless of whether the impulse for creative exploration becomes observation of the surrounding reality, inspiration from the world of "here and now", or philosophical and literary tropes Woznica's paintings are characterized by artistic authenticity and consistency of the choices made. The latest series of works, Consciousness of Existence, is a successful exemplification of her painting credo. A dozen canvases of varying formats evoke questions about the nature of the world and human perception, the validity of conventional concepts of time and space, the role that our
consciousness plays in forming judgments about the surrounding reality....
(...) As the artist herself admits, there are echoes of biocentrism in her paintings - a concept that arose from a critical analysis of the dogmas of Western science. According to the assumption of the creators - this one of the many, by the way, 'theories of everything' - it would be observations from biology - and not physics, as previously claimed - that would become the crowning argument in the discussion on establishing the logic of the universe (...)"
Natalia Zak
(excerpts from the introduction to the exhibition catalog)