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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 and the social, cultural, and political changes around her, often focusing on the transformative encounters between bodies and other beings, while examining the power dynamics in 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.

Education 

2016-2019

BA (Hons) Fine Art, Arts University Bournemouth

Exhibitions 

Solo

2023
2022
2020
Test Drive, Gratin, New York, USA
Unreliable narrator, eastcontemporary, Milan, Italy
Not sure if it will happen in my lifetime, online exhibition, Solo Show website
2019        Praesentia, ae, f. Alex Mayall, Lumen Crypt Gallery, London, UK

Group

2024

2023

Cortical Systematics,  High Art Paris x Lomex Gallery, Arles, France

A human being after all, eastcontemporary, Milan, Italy

2022

At the level of remains, Beacon, Munich, Germany

2022

2021

2021

2020

Baitball 2, Like A Little Disaster, Polignano a Mare, Italy

Catharsis, curated by Brittany Sutcliffe, London, UK

Les Danses Nocturnes, Entrevaux, France 

Feather Dusting, online exhibition, curated by Kleio collective 

2020

Solo Show, Chapter 2, A postnet folk fanfiction fairytalemythology (p.1), online exhibition, curated by Underground Flower and Rhizome Parking Garage, Solo Show website 

Arts University Bournemouth Summer Exhibition 

2019

2018

I'm not a feminist, I believe in equality. A feminist exhibition, BUMF Gallery, Bournemouth, UK

2018

2018

2017

2014

Kiosk 7, Copenhagen, Denmark

Anachronism, Russell-Cotes, Bournemouth, UK

8IN5, Arts University Bournemouth, UK 

Art and Fashion Forum, 8th Edition, Poznan, Poland

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