VIKTORIA KURNICKI

[b.1993, BOCHUM, GERMANY]


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The sensation of estrangement and the act of approaching it. Growing up as the daughter of Polish immigrants in Germany left her with a state between belonging and alienation. A disquieting strain to reach fleeting hints of vulnerable truth standing like shadow figures behind the mist. A sombre atmosphere with imperfect communication that undermines anthropocentric prejudice through the reversibility of gazes in the execution of its sumptuous industrial forms. Relational works whose dichotomies lead to a random passage of time unknowable in its articulation. A non-orientable surface in its lost highways.

In procinto di divenire, 2024

Mdf, paint, polystyrene, cement, sand, aluminium, 100x100x30cm


The reproduction of a sandbox (a structure used in children’s playgrounds) aseptically decontextualized and dislocated in a random transition of time. The term sandbox is also used in other spheres, to describe freely explorable environments, which can be completed in different ways, where, since there are no constraints, every approach is possible.

The psychologist Jean Piaget reported on studies on the manipulation of sand, the various activities done with it allow one to learn different notions, such as the fact that matter is not necessarily made of blocks, but can be composed of even very small elements. Thus learning different notions: empty/full, dry/wet, hard/soft, fragile/solid, key elements of Viktoria’s research. The artist adds cement in her work, creating the compound ideal as a finishing layer, in the phase before concrete (an element often used in her work, to narrate a stage of human identity that is not very malleable and already well constructed anthropologically in today’s society, due to the hardening of the conglomerate). As Friedrich Froebel, the inventor of the Childhood Garden, said he conceived play as a preparatory exercise for future activities.

In procinto di divenire, 2024

Mdf, paint, polystyrene, cement, sand, aluminium, 100x100x30cm


The reproduction of a sandbox (a structure used in children’s playgrounds) aseptically decontextualized and dislocated in a random transition of time. The term sandbox is also used in other spheres, to describe freely explorable environments, which can be completed in different ways, where, since there are no constraints, every approach is possible.

The psychologist Jean Piaget reported on studies on the manipulation of sand, the various activities done with it allow one to learn different notions, such as the fact that matter is not necessarily made of blocks, but can be composed of even very small elements. Thus learning different notions: empty/full, dry/wet, hard/soft, fragile/solid, key elements of Viktoria’s research. The artist adds cement in her work, creating the compound ideal as a finishing layer, in the phase before concrete (an element often used in her work, to narrate a stage of human identity that is not very malleable and already well constructed anthropologically in today’s society, due to the hardening of the conglomerate). As Friedrich Froebel, the inventor of the Childhood Garden, said he conceived play as a preparatory exercise for future activities.

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