Visual artist Aga Rymuszka Follow.Art Card

About me

The centre of my artistic practice is seeking the grotesque and the peculiar in life and in society, gathering these notions, cultural fragments, experiences and images and transforming them into paintings, since they allow distortion without explanation. I want to showcase an altered, bizarre version of the world, perhaps as a reaction to the posthuman times we live in. The uncanny and strange feel more real to me than the ordinary, since they are raw expressions of human life, unrestricted by general societal norms.
My practice is rooted in the theatrical, the grotesque, carnival and puppetry, as well as in 1920s decadence and various 20th-century movements, such as Die Brücke and Dada. In my work, I search for where life and art meet and multiply it by ten. I am not into what’s beautiful, nor am I looking for the truth or big ideals. I want to show the ambivalence, the in-between, what is strange, eerie, and out of place, the fever dream.
'Travel is useful; it exercises the imagination. All the rest is disappointment and fatigue. Our journey is entirely imaginary. That is its strength. It goes from life to death. People, animals, cities, things – all are imagined. It's a novel, just a fictitious narrative. (...) And besides, in the first place, anyone can do as much. You just have to close your eyes. It's on the other side of life.'
Louis-Ferdinand Céline: Journey to the End of the Night