Joanna Wierzbicka

Joanna Wierzbicka

Work from Soft Gut Lining.

“In an age where conspiracy theories and technological paranoia permeate discourse, the boundary between justified concern and irrational fear grows increasingly blurred. These three artists probe this territory by presenting works that embody mechanisms of deception and surveillance.

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Joanna Wierzbicka’s soft, flesh-like sculptures present bodies in constant adaptation, hovering between organic and artificial, familiar and alien. These speculative appendages, imagined for survival in hostile environments, give form to our collective anxieties. Like the fictional organisms of conspiracy theories, they suggest a future where adaptation becomes a kind of camouflage. Her holobionts blur the boundaries between self and environment, organism and technology, raising questions about what forms of transformation survival might demand in an ever-shifting world.

Together, these works create a hall of mirrors where paranoia meets confirmation, where the tools of deception become the means of survival. The exhibition asks: in a world where everything can be fabricated, how do we distinguish between legitimate concern and manufactured fear?” – Edita Malina