"After quite impulsively tackling a frame-by-frame sequence of an animated figure merging into a mountainscape using paint on paper a few years ago, the artist started her journey into analogue animation and it's "a rabbit hole I never want to leave", she says. "This sense of continuous, boundaryless flow underpins both my life and my work. In animation, I have found the most compelling way to interpret the world being in constant motion.""
"Originally from Warsaw, the animator grew up in a village in eastern Poland where "folk tales were mingled with Catholic saints' hagiographies", she says. This layered, more mysterious side to her set of cultural inspirations offers the artist a way to explore "the shadow side of the human experience" in her work."
Weronika Marianna's practice moves between drawing, painting and analogue animation. An impulsive frame-by-frame painted sequence of a figure merging into a mountainscape prompted a deeper commitment to analogue animation. A sense of continuous, boundaryless flow informs life and work and motivates an interest in depicting constant motion. Recurring subjects include nature and the body rendered in dark, mystical, delicate scenes influenced by Slavic grimoire and ancestral folklore. Growing up in eastern Poland mixed folk tales with Catholic saints' hagiographies, providing layered allegories of the psyche that access repressed sexuality, pain and death. Work uses acrylic, oil, watercolor, ink, charcoal, pencil, non-camera film and print techniques and draws on sixties and seventies animation and women surrealist painters. Cheap paper is preferred for tangibility and a welcomed lack of control.
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