Dimensions: 80 x 100 cm
Signed and dated on the stretcher: 'NIKOLA BANASIK 2024'
Biography
A student at the Faculty of Painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw. Participant in group exhibitions such as: “Łapiduchy” (Curators’Lab Gallery, Poznań, 2026), “Traces That Were Not Supposed to Be” (Museum of the Cursed Soldiers and Political Prisoners of the Polish People’s Republic, Warsaw, 2025), “Afekt” (Prześwit Foundation, Warsaw, 2025). Solo exhibitions: “tam, gdzie powierzchnia mięknie” (Karrot, Warsaw, 2026), “Silent Painting” (MOK Art Salon, Legionowo, 2023). Her work is based on an analysis of subtle gestures and relationships in which everyday life reveals its non-obvious, often unsettling side. Through motifs of the body and deformed matter, she undermines the stability of what is familiar and safe, revealing the world as a space of constant negotiation of boundaries and a search for fixed and unchanging values. She explores a reality in which meanings remain fluid and experience is never fully resolved. She herself regards her paintings as the testament of a vigilant observer—one who is contrarian and questions everything.
