“Hollen” drawing by Dorota Jurczak.
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The Polish-born Jurczak’s macabre and fantastical works combine influences from folklore and mythology, along with inventions of her own imagination. The figures in her work are predominantly indebted to Eastern European iconography and exist in darkly whimsical dream-worlds, human and non-human, surrounded by anthromorphic animals, creeping woods, hair and all manner of deformed creatures. Jurczak’s highly stylized works are like fragments of an ongoing surreal narrative that starts and stops without needing to make any sense.
