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Agata Stępień
Twin Pregnancy
Agata Stępień
Sleep
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Lucky Bastard
Agata Stępień
Artist’s Statement
Dr. Agata Teresa Stępień presents her study on female artistic perception, based on intimacy and the relationship around the body and importance of physical manifestation. The whole series talks about her private life and proves that no one gets rid of imperfections or insecurity. In her daily life, she is still working and using art as a way to relieve her anxiety, as a meaning of kind of exorcism. The psychoanalysis is present in the work. Her emotions are out of proportion to the events that cause them, they bother her and she has to get rid of them. The process of creating define it as an act of downloading emotions. This way is like her work becomes an attractive and very intimate motivation. She believes that art can be sometimes an instrument for dealing with individual and social conflicts, to watch them in front and thus revive these small beginnings and endings we live every day.
The presented series of works is about the private life of the author and proves that nobody is free from imperfections or uncertainties. The artist uses art as a way of emphasizing her anxiety and defines the process of creation as an act of absorbing emotions. In this way her work becomes a very intimate and attractive motivation for the viewer. In her works, the reflections focus on the body as the subject of artistic activity, on the creative level of physical transgression, which circulate in search of answers to the questions about the limits of body image and artistic freedom in the context of contemporary culture. The artist's center of interest is the body as an experimental zone, the influence of power, property subject to continuous change, and places where one can define his or her own subjectivity. The cycle reassesses the visual sphere as well as the concept of art, beauty and aesthetics. The function should be interpreted as a revelation, showing what is not obvious, what is " subcutaneous,” unclear and marginal. The search is based on the study of female intimacy and the extremes of intimate transgression, through the interpretation and psychoanalysis research, philosophy and the broadly understood humanities of our time. Inspired by authors who studied the subject of corporality and its participation in the context of power. These poles of intellectual tensions of crossing borders, in the context of the values and norms of different societies, give rise to the cultural existence of art and the cause for transgression in the face of current affairs, examining the extent to which we can predict conflict and develop a meeting strategy with regards to taboo in order to maintain constructive interpersonal experiences.
about the artist
Dr. Agata Teresa Stępień (1986) was born into an artistic family in Poland and grew up in Spain. She has spent the last 11 years studying and obtaining scholarships in 6 countries. She obtained her master's degree at the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome (diploma in painting with distinction), after which she settled in Barcelona and completed her doctoral studies there with the title of international doctor of art at two universities: Universidad Castilla La Mancha in Spain and Universidade Belas Artes Lisboa in Portugal.Since 2017 she was a lecturer in the author's bilingual course '' Global perspective of body in actual art. The introductory topics in vision of gender phenomenon '' and '' Transgressions in art. Cultural dynamics '' at the Faculty of Humanities of the AGH University of Science and Technology in Krakow. She also paricipates by invitation of European universities (among others during the Womens Leadership Symposium in Oxford). She is a member of the Indevol International Research Group and the Euro-Mediterranean Women's Foundation in Barcelona. She is fluent in four languages. Her scientific research concerns female artistic perception and is based on interest in intimacy and the female body.