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