About Kasia Marciniak

 

Kasia Marciniak is London based artist who works mostly in acrylics, but often uses other mediums in her works like felt-tip pens, watercolours and a thread. The artist creates paintings on canvases as well as paper. Kasia’s works are characterized by seemingly random choice of imagery where bold colours and attention to detail recall almost graphic-like qualities. One painting could represent a building site, the other is an image “borrowed” from the newspaper, the next one is a semi-abstract, psychedelic looking piece that is a collection of a number of different distorted pictures morphing into each other. One thing in common is the everyday imagery, things people see and encounter in their daily lives. The artist seem to make a statement that the banal is important and she draws her inspiration from the everyday, things that surround her at all times. Kasia’s art can be therefore perceived as personal manifestation of her daily life’s routine but each spectator can empathize with that reality. 

 

 “In my art practice I am engaged in the concept of the everyday and banal as an important part of our lives. I believe that things we often consider unimportant and ordinary, things we might register as a visual noise like a puddle of water reflecting the playground area, a scaffolding or an empty plastic bag “dancing” in the wind - these details and banal events are the everyday and they really matter. It is physically impossible for one person to notice every triviality around them. The everyday will differ depending on whether someone lives in Paris or a small village in Peru. Unique experiences shape us into individuals, making us focus on different things. It is not only who we are that shapes what we see, it is also what we see that shapes us. Regardless of the environment, culture, religion, social factors as well as personal experiences the constant stimuli of various images, sounds and smells has an impact on the choices that we make and our perception of reality. Therefore the everyday would vary for people standing next to each other on the same bus stop. There is a true beauty in this. That is why I am making the banal the subject of my art practice. I am a chance observer of the quotidian and my paintings represent my everyday, therefore they are in a way a diaristic representation of my daily life, of the things I noticed. I paint unimportant things and through the act of painting I give them importance. In a way my canvases state that this image, this event was significant. I want viewers to wonder why I chose that image and if they were to make a painting like mine, which image would they chose? I think that realization of self in space and time is a key element in defining who we are as individuals and our role in society.”