Agata Bogacka
Declarations 5 - @ Warsaw Old Town
Declarations 5 - @ Warsaw Old Town
BIO
A painter and graduate from the Painting Department of the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, her early works focused on stylized, composite figurative works reflecting her emotional states and relationships with loved ones. Over time, her work evolved, and the direct references to reality became increasingly abstract. Bogacka’s most recent pieces are based on the figures and subtle tonal transitions. However, her new pieces explore human relationships in a different way than her early work. Through the use of gradients, the artist symbolizes the blurring and setting of boundaries, giving her works a multidimensional aspect.
Artwork
Declarations 5, acrylic on canvas, 2025
This painting comes from the Declarations series, in which the artist explores boundaries and how they are crossed, posing questions about the nature of a declaration and analyzing the tension between chaos and order. This work, created specifically for PURO, is an abstract composition of geometric shapes placed on raw canvas and revealing empty, unpainted spaces. At first glance, the parts of the composition appear to be a fixed construction, but upon closer inspection we find a controlled chaos – they shift, overlap, and interact. The pieces in this series go beyond a visual narrative to expose multifaceted tensions, both interpersonal and sociopolitical. The colors in Bogacka’s paintings collide and work together, creating subtle tonal transitions and powerful contrasts that reflect the complexity of the divisions—here are declarations that may or may not be fulfilled. The roughness of the canvas and clear traces of the creative process emphasize the play with the relationships and decisions between the real and the illusory.