Anna Ostoya
Saturday, 21 March 2026
Work from Autopis: Notes, Copies and Masterpieces.
“The complexity of a lived historical reality inevitably gets simplified through representation. On this fulcrum, Ostoya’s art operates critically. She purposefully creates oppositional binaries from her source materials, manipulating history in order to show how malleable and complex (rather than predetermined and fixed) it is. This she achieves through artistic means, first by a process of selection and appropriation then augmentation, transposition, elision, and the countless other tools at her disposal. Ostoya tells us clearly that art is a site of discourse, perpetually in flux and responsive to its time.” – Paulina Pobocha, Zachęta catalogue, 2018