- Visual Art
Imagined Truths
Marina Witt, Paula Kaniewska
27 June 2025 19:00–22:00
Our project examines how ordinary objects and elements of daily life shape our perception of reality. By combining drawing, painting, and imaginative reinterpretation, we navigate the space between what is real and what is constructed. Through careful observation of nature and everyday surroundings, we explore the boundaries between truth and perception. How much of what we consider "real" is rooted in objective facts, and how much stems from our internal projections?
For this project, Marina Witt’s artistic research focuses on the interplay between the natural and the surreal. Using coloured pencil drawings as her primary medium, she examines the reliability of perception by introducing unexpected, dreamlike elements into otherwise realistic depictions. By constructing unreal facets within familiar forms, she seeks to provoke certainties and invite reflection on the fluid balance between truth, imagination, and subjectivity.
Paula Kaniewska, meanwhile, explores the copying and distortion of everyday objects, transforming them from familiar to disturbingly strange by altering their scale or material. This process evokes hidden emotions and memories, jolting viewers out of cognitive certainty. In her paintings, she depicts old-fashioned sugar-paste lollipops with melting shapes, blurring the line between innocence and the uncanny. By intensifying the distortion, she turns a simple treat into an abstract, unsettling form—a screen for projecting fears and desires.
There will be a reading perfomance at 19h.
For this project, Marina Witt’s artistic research focuses on the interplay between the natural and the surreal. Using coloured pencil drawings as her primary medium, she examines the reliability of perception by introducing unexpected, dreamlike elements into otherwise realistic depictions. By constructing unreal facets within familiar forms, she seeks to provoke certainties and invite reflection on the fluid balance between truth, imagination, and subjectivity.
Paula Kaniewska, meanwhile, explores the copying and distortion of everyday objects, transforming them from familiar to disturbingly strange by altering their scale or material. This process evokes hidden emotions and memories, jolting viewers out of cognitive certainty. In her paintings, she depicts old-fashioned sugar-paste lollipops with melting shapes, blurring the line between innocence and the uncanny. By intensifying the distortion, she turns a simple treat into an abstract, unsettling form—a screen for projecting fears and desires.
There will be a reading perfomance at 19h.
Biography
Marina Witt, Paula Kaniewska
Marina Witt (b. 1983, São Paulo, Brazil) is a Berlin-based artist whose work explores the intersections of the erotic and the grotesque, body and territory, consumption, and excess. By juxtaposing these elements, she aims to create provocative socio-political narratives that challenge conventional perspectives. She graduated from Fine Art at the Hochschule für Bildende Künste Braunschweig.
Paula Kaniewska (b.1989, Warsaw, Poland) is a visual artist living in Berlin. She graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw. Kaniewska works across various media, including painting and installation, as well as map-making and video. Her artistic practice concentrates on the documentation of boundaries, with a keen eye for disruptions and discontinuities.
Paula Kaniewska (b.1989, Warsaw, Poland) is a visual artist living in Berlin. She graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw. Kaniewska works across various media, including painting and installation, as well as map-making and video. Her artistic practice concentrates on the documentation of boundaries, with a keen eye for disruptions and discontinuities.
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