Biography
For nearly two decades, the Polish-born UK-based artist Magda Stawarska has explored the threshold of memory, the sanctioned shape of history and the active experience of listening. Through sound and performance, moving image, photography, painting and printmaking, she unfolds overlooked and contested narratives of the past through her practice of ‘inner listening’.
Stawarska’s distinct approach to artmaking often begins with explorations of cities. Traversing self-directed routes, she has often been compared to a flâneur—moving freely through each site, cultivating a rhythmic score that reveals a densely layered urban topography. These situated scenes become the basis for a distinct form of language—one of conjured imaginaries. Stawarska and her carefully chosen collaborators unbuckle the seams of the aural landscape, using personal reflection and language to create installations that constellate active feelings.
