PIOTR PANDYRA

A Woven Moment

Piotr Pandyra

KasinkaMala, Poland

“As far as I can remember I have always been interested in fabric and its unlimited possibilities. In the first stage of my artistic experiences, I focused my attention mainly on designing clothes and technological realization of the project. Clothes and fabric are the material grown together with the human body and its everyday rituals. In the first place, I've been fascinated by the intimacy of the projects I've been working on. The whole process of creation of the outfit is a meeting with another human and his or her individual expectations, experiences and emotions.

In my art practice, I try to break traditional methods and create paying attention particularly to formal variety and each of the following projects becomes for me a separate ideological and technological task. I've exchanged classical drawing tools for untypical ones such as a needle and a sewing machine. Background for drawings has also been changed. The traditional paper has been replaced by untraditional backgrounds such as haberdashery, nets, glass fibre and so on.

In the world of the constant need for the novelty and originality for me, everyday life reality becomes an inspiration. I'm interested in a human being, his or her condition, emotional and physical efforts with reality. In my works, I use records, notes, history of art, fragments of reality…”

Text by the artist

Piotr Pandyra Self-portrait With Mannequin, 2019 Hand-controlled machine embroidery on linen fabric 103 x 70 cm See availability @ricegallery.art