Visual artist Paweł Batura Follow.Art Card

About me

In painting and other creative practices, I draw inspiration from phenomena at the intersection of form and process—between figuration and abstraction. Regardless of the medium, I am interested in the relationship between experience and its model.

The image is not treated as representation, but as a record of abstracted processes occurring across different types of systems: physical, biological, cognitive, and social—especially at moments of change: flows, dispersions, bifurcations, when structures become visible.

This applies both to systems of perception, cognition, and understanding, as well as to phenomena occurring in nature. There is no access to “raw” reality—only to its representations. Perception is the first abstraction, and what is considered real is a model that has often, conventionally or arbitrarily, ceased to be questioned.

Every model is a simplification—a reduction of complexity that enables understanding, while simultaneously obscuring what escapes cognitive frameworks.

Thus, an oscillation between abstractions—those that reveal and those taken for reality; between experience that is already a model; the world as a first-order abstraction; between a model and a model we take for reality.

I learn in order to unlearn—in order to try to understand.