Irena Kalicka

The catalogue shows works of Irena Kalicka from years 2009-2016 accompanied by an essay of Krzysztof Pijarski „Horrors and Humours , or, On the Work of Irena Kalicka”.

„The art of Irena Kalicka is not just about the wanton or even lewd rollicking of audaciously amused classmates — the boys and girls actually cry sometimes, just as the bearded brides cannot avoid being compared to ‘foolish geese′. The tricks also include a plastic dragon, and picturesque ruins, processed in Photoshop, beguiling the eye with their ambiguity, their already-proverbial ‘attraction and repulsion′. The photography of Irena Kalicka is about more than the ambiguity of the visible, and includes the ambivalences it disguises — temptations that can be worth confronting.”

Bożena Czubak

Part of the introduction to the catalogue „Irena Kalicka”