The Body Falls to Pieces / Martyna Baranowicz, Emil Bucki, Ewa Dąbkowska, Klaudia Kiełbasa, Agata Nowosielska, Klaudia Prabucka, Igor Przybylski, Angelika Rudak
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Klaudia Prabucka, I would like to kindle the hearth with my own hands, but I watch them burn, 2024, steel, 228 x 200 x 200 cm, exhibition view, courtesy of m² Gallery, photo by Adam Gut -
Martyna Baranowicz, Welcome to the room of my heart, 2026, oil on canvas, 50 x 40 cm, courtesy of the artist and m² Gallery -
Emil Bucki, To Spite Grandma, I’ll Grate My Hands Raw, 2024, oil and acrylic on canvas, 160 × 140 cm, Courtesy of the artist, the Kotarski Collection, and Galeria m²
The exhibition "The Body Falls to Pieces" explores the roles played by representations of tearing, cutting off, cutting out, gouging, rubbing, squeezing, and framing fragments of the body in the works of eight artists: Martyna Baranowicz (b. 1992), Emil Bucki (b. 1999), Ewa Dąbkowska (b. 1998), Klaudia Kiełbasa (b. 2000), Agata Nowosielska (b. 1982), Klaudia Prabucka (b. 1997), Igor Przybylski (b. 1974), and Angelika Rudak (b. 1999).
The starting point is Linda Nochlin’s essay "The Body in Pieces," in which the scholar argues that representations of dismembered bodies are the very essence of modernism. "Yet the loss of a whole is something more than a tragedy. Modernity itself is constructed from this loss." (...) "It was the French Revolution—the pivotal event that ushered in the modern era—that transformed the fragment into a positive motif, rather than a negative one." (Linda Nochlin, The Body in Pieces, Polish edition 2025, p. 11).
Curator: Matylda Prus