Halina Sikorska
an industrial suburb of Gdansk, Poland
Halina Sikorska has spent years in the unvarnished life of a motel housekeeper on the fringes of Gdańsk, where she lives alone in a Spartan flat. Each morning she converses delicately with the ghost of her husband over tea, then heads to the motel, a place worn by time and carelessness. Driven by the fear of obsolescence, she crafts her unconventional art in silence, wrestling with the tangible and the ethereal.
About
Obsession
The slow, inevitable silencing of the mail slot
Voice
Quiet weight of absence
Artistic Medium
Assemblages from discarded motel linens and receipts
Technique
Stitching and layering
Influences
Conversations with her late husband, the hollow rustle of envelopes, creased motel bedspreads
Materials
Faded motel linens, old receipts, burnt-out matchsticks
Scale
Tabletop to dresser top
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