Zuzanna Salamon’s year has started brilliantly, with the news that she’s been selected to show in the Royal Society for British Artist’s 200th annual show at the Mall Galleries London for the 3rd year running. See the 2022 announcement that she was selected as a RBA Rising Star, listed for their prize of a residency in Rome. These are all notable achievements, promising exciting things to come. It’s a great time to invest in this outstanding emerging artist.
The Rising Stars show was held at the Royal British Overseas League last year, and mapped the trajectory of what is yet to come in contemporary art practice from the relative viewpoint of the present day.
The show will be opening in March, when you can see Zuzanna’s intricate and monumental charcoal works. Feathers recur in them, and as 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 of charcoal to render their textural specificity in a way that we experience as true.
Here Zuzanna speaks about how she fell in love with drawing how through it she began to engage with the present, how it broke down language barriers for her and how forgetting is part of the artistic process.
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