132 x 150 cm | 51 x 59 in
Subject: Abstract
Original drawing in charcoal on paper.
Notable Achievements 2023
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Feathers recur in Zuzanna Salamon’s work, and like the cyclical drift of nature they provide motif, symbol, and sign. At the same time as gesturing towards the artist’s interest in migration across cultures, they provide a unique challenge for her primary medium, charcoal, to render their textural specificity in a way that we experience as true. In ‘All birds forgot to sing’ what is impressive is the breadth of the scene and the minutiae of its contents: grass blades, the fringes of feathers, folds of a curtain, a flock of birds and their individual silhouettes, the sky and its shadings of light... all rendered in charcoal alone.
‘I try to grow new roots in the land I call foreign’ is another title evoking a mythic and a personal story. The realism with which the wooden floor in the background is rendered is a delight to see. Salamon’s paintings can be moody; they are always beautiful. In them trees and their fallen leaves also reoccur: the subject is growth, but in its complexity, interlocked as it is with questions of ritual, change, and environment – nature, but as it is interwoven with meaning for human eyes.
Zuzanna's work was selected for the 2023 Royal Academy Summer Exhibition and the 2023 RSA Annual Exhibition.