Sunspot

"Sunspot" is a series of black-and-white photographs – the result of the artist's journey through an unfamiliar landscape, where the direction is guided by bright spots of light that appear after prolonged staring at the sun. The artist moves through this enigmatic space, attempting to understand it and impose her own logic upon it – a logic that, when confronted with nature, proves to be uncertain. The exhibition is a record of a relationship with the landscape – one full of clues, repetitions, symbols, and fleeting meaning that soon dissolves into chaos.

Joanna Tochman (born 1992 in Kraków)
– visual artist, graduate of Art History at the Jagiellonian University and the Faculty of Painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków, where she completed her diploma in 2018 in the studio of Professor Andrzej Bednarczyk. She is currently pursuing doctoral studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Gdańsk. Her creative practice spans painting, photography, and artistic objects. In her work, she navigates the boundary between the real world and imagination, exploring themes of space, landscape, places and non-places.

She was a finalist of the Hestia Artistic Journey 2018, winner of the "Nowy Obraz / Nowe Spojrzenie" (New Image / New Look) competition in 2018, recipient of the Grand Prix in the Eibisch Competition 2019, two-time finalist of the Strabag Artaward International (2021, 2023), finalist of the Lubelska Wiosna 2023, and winner of the Young Space Award for Visual Arts Scotland 2022. Her first solo exhibition, titled I’ll Tell a Different Story, a Stranger One, was held in 2019 at the Duża Scena UAP Gallery in Poznań.