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On encountering the pictures of Marzena Ablewska, we seem to be viewing a realm that lies beneath the world we take for granted. We catch its echoes through the artist's vivid images, rendered with meticulous skill.
Alongside her vivid dreams myth is another important source. Female figures such as Hecate, Danaë, Medea and Persephone, are not so much subjects of a familiar narrative as symbols of the female in often disturbing relation to her environment. This may be represented by scenes of nature teeming with real or imagined creatures and/or by distortions of human form that …