Gabriela Pelczarska
Overview
“My work encourages an innately humorous response, alongside a sense of uneasy curiosity provoked by balancing juxtaposing ideas of industry and play. I am continuously drawn to exploring balance in sculpture, making manifest the interaction between forces such as acceleration, friction, surface tension, and gravity.” - Gabriela Pelczarska
Gabriela creates contemporary sculpture with industrial materials, dismantling their intended purposes by exploring their performative qualities through abstract compositions.
Her work encourages an innately humorous response - as we observe, we are left with a sense of unease and curiosity. We witness a delicate irony between our expectations of the industrial and its playful manifestation. Exploring suggestion and movement within sculpture, Gabriela unconsciously reacts to the potential collapse caused by gravity in her works.
Biography
Gabriela Pelczarska is a polish-born artist based in London. She graduated from a BA Fine Art in Sculpture at the University of Brighton in 2018, and is currently studying an MA in Fine Art at Goldsmiths, University of London.
She has undertaken multiple residencies including the Thorp Stavri & Two Temple Place Research Residency (London, 2022), the Lakkos Artist Residency (Greece, 2019) and the De Liceiras Experimental Research Residency (Portugal, 2018).
Recent selected exhibitions include: Lost in a Just-In-Time Supply Chain, (Hypha Studios, London, 2022), City Entwined , (Paradise Row Projects, London, 2022), East Open, (Volt Eastbourne, East Sussex, 2022), It happens sometimes, People just explode curated by Thorp Stavri , (The Factory Project, 2021) and Awkward, (The Stone Space, Leytonstone, 2020).
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