MOMENTUM – TRAFO ARTIST RESIDENCY EXCHANGE
30 November 2013 – 26 January 2014
Exhibition: SANATORIUM
Featuring Natalia Szostak, Curated by Aurelia Nowak

SANATORIUM is the result of a Process-Based Residency during which Szczecin-based artist Natalia Szostak has been living and working in the MOMENTUM space in the Kunstquartier Bethanien. Working together with curator Aurelia Nowak, from Poznan, Szostak creates new work in response to her immersion in this former church-run hospital. Surrounded by the family of Szostak’s earlier work brought into this new context, the artist and curator conceive of this Process-Based Residency in the tradition of the sanatorium – a retreat wherein they have time to focus and develop their work. Working across a variety of media, and drawing on autobiographical motifs of personal memory and family history, Szostak’s richly textured works give us an insight into a strong character sheltering a delicate sensibility. Szostak’s visual language expresses a soul well beyond her years, rooted in a cultural tradition somehow unchanged by her international education and work experience.