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CONTEMPORARY ART REVIEW
Karol Kochanowski
idea in my past projects“# SELFIE _ SHOW-OFF” and its follow up“ U R Not Invited”. It took me some time to read a meaning of paintings I’ ve made for both shows. I wanted to talk about the power of mass media; authenticity of information we get from it, how easy is to create your own reality with social media tools and to control other’ s opinion. Instead, what I saw in my abstract paintings was fear and lack of hope. Part of my real, inner Nature was unveiled, constantly returning depression and growing anxiety inside of me, these were dictating to me the creative process. I discovered, that all this time under layers of doubts and dilemmas of socio political situation of the World and auto destructive nature of human I was dealing with my own illness. Following these reflections I came out with concept for my next exhibition“ therapy”. My aim was to continue developing the subject of mental illness being linked to artist’ s creativity.
The name“ therapy” came from the belief that the actual practice of painting is one of the ways of understanding and recovering from mental illness and is in itself a form of therapy. By setting up this project in a public space I wanted to raise awareness of the invisible character of mental illness, which brings feelings of alienation and lack of understanding from the society.