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Wednesday, 18 March 2026

Paweł Książek

Paweł Książek

Untitled 15, 2026
graphite, charcoal and watercolour on Arches paper, 45 x 60 cm
Unique

Paweł Książek’s Narration series is a constellation of autonomous drawings that bring together visual elements and text, creating a space where visuals and language coexist in tension and resonance. The drawings are created through a process in which the meanings of the image and the text remain open rather than fixed. The visual layer does not illustrate the text, nor does the text explain the image, although they may sometimes loosely connect. Word and image function as independent yet mutually influencing forces within a field of meanings and associations, creating a tension in which the image plays a particularly significant role. 

Rendered in a restrained monochrome palette, the works move between figuration and abstraction, presenting fragments of bodies, textures, mechanical forms, traces of faces, and indeterminate landscapes, as if retrieved from a subconscious archive. Suspended between recognition and disappearance, they evoke traces emerging from memory and perception.