Paulina Sosinska – The artist’s work is associated with Jungian archetypes, which are known to have a close connection with emotions. The stronger the accompanying emotional feelings, the more distinct the form they take. Emotions serve as a kind of building material for the paintings created in the artist’s studio.
The most significant archetype in Sosińska’s work is the shadow archetype, which appears in the majority of her paintings. The figures depicted in her works, deliberately exaggerated in scale, take the shapes of people she knows, accompanied by animals—most often dogs. In the imaginary world she creates, these figures play various roles but are merely an external shell, a medium that allows emotions to be portrayed. With her brush, the artist reveals that individual experiences do not leave her isolated but open her up to the entire spectrum of human experience. She believes that her painterly alphabet, unlike any other, allows her to express through art what she could not express in any other way. She is aware that her paintings are not just her story, as she is not the only person affected by these situations; they illustrate issues that people have grappled with since the dawn of time. Through her artistic effort, she strives to draw out the magical power of the archetype, which reaches viewers through their experiences, which they can read into the given painting.
She does not impose her narrative on the viewer. What is important to her is that viewers do not seek out her subjective experiences but focus on what they themselves feel when engaging with her work.
