Arts University Bournemouth Summer Exhibition 

Aleksandra Sidor ( b. 1991, Poland ) is a visual artist graduated from the Faculty of Fine Arts in Bournemouth. Sidor’s artistic style is deeply influenced by Polish avant-garde movements and psychoanalytic theories. Her unsettling works explore themes of perception, awareness, and consciousness, using a richly ornamental visual language combined with irony and a surrealist sense of the uncanny. She draws inspiration from historical illustrations as well as the social, cultural, and political changes around her, often focusing on the transformative encounters between bodies and other beings, while examining the intimate dynamics within these relationships.

The smooth surface of her works is marked by different layers of paint. Varying the thickness and the angles of brush strokes creates the sense of depth. At the same time, the reflected light from contoured lines directs our attention to the subtle shifts in colour. This fascination with surfaces is used to reflect upon, among others, the peculiar anatomy of her subjects and adds to a multisensory experience of the viewer. Sidor’s interest in perception is directly reflected in her approach to perspective, which is very often the starting point of her aesthetic research. As a result, the figures that she creates are often characterised by the deformation of their defining physical attributes.