Dimensions: 168 x 54 cm
signed, dated and described on the reverse: 'MARTYNA ŚCIBIOR | TALE OF THE WORLD | 2025'
Literature
"I am a collector. Since 2013 I have been collecting among women the remnants of their nail polish. I weave stories from the waste, which are carriers of meaning. They are given to me by teenage girls, as well as by village women's circles, sometimes by celebrities, sometimes by store ladies, sometimes by Olga Tokarczuk and the women she befriends. Their fates on the canvas come into contact with each other."
MARTYNA ŚCIBIOR
Biography
The artist lives and works in Zawada near Lublin, sometimes in Warsaw. A painter who in 2013 swapped paints for leftover nail polish, which she collects from women. Her abstract paintings consisting of the repetitive gesture of applying nail polish to the canvas, as if on nails, allude to knitting, a repetitive, meditative activity that requires patience. She is a two-time scholarship holder of the Minister of Culture and National Heritage, winner of the Geppert Competition (Wroclaw 2013), the Promotion of the Young (Legnica 2012), and a finalist in the Talents of the Three (Warsaw 2014). Her paintings can be found in the PKO Bank Collection, the Art Collection of the European Hotel, or in the collection of the Starak Family Foundation.
