Pestka by Magdalena Wywrot is a portrait of the life of a mother and her daughter
teenage girl who defies gravity and goes through the mirror. This is a
series of chronological dispatches apparently transmitted from a station
airtight spacecraft suspended above a planet (and Krakow, in
Poland) where time has literally stood still. The world outside the
windows of Wywrot's apartment seem both distant and desolate and
incredibly beautiful, almost devoid of human presence. A kind of
rapture seems to have taken place outside, while a metamorphosis
intimate is slowly taking place inside. A dreamlike feeling of dislocation
disturbing permeates the entire work. Wywrot's photos have the appearance
of an aquarium and evolve, like mercury, between expressionism,
impressionism and abstraction. The portraits are tender, mysterious,
full of sparks of wonder and ecstasy, while the landscapes are
disoriented, hostile, vaguely apocalyptic and often sublime. We have the
feeling of an unmistakable awareness in the work, and one suddenly has
the impression that a giant, ambiguous life force or spirit is hiding in the
dark streets of the underground, waiting for Wywrot to complete his work and release his
girl on the planet.
