opening of the exhibition “Pickled Mirror” | Marta Jamróg | 6.02.2026, 18:00-21:00

PICKLED MIRROR

Marta Jamróg

Opening | 6.02.2026, 6 PM - 9 PM

Exhibition | 7.02 – 28.03.2026

Valley of Tears | 2025 | acrylic with dry pigment and oil on canvas | 130 x 130 cm

Marta Jamróg's latest exhibition “Pickled Mirror” is a visual narrative that attempts to reach the earliest, inaccessible stages of human development. The artist focuses on the moment of life's formation, treating it as a space in which the first emotional matrices and predispositions can arise: processes that begin to operate even before the individual enters into a relationship with the outside world.

The central theme of the exhibition is the consideration of the “programmed scenario” hypothesis, i.e., the belief that the trajectory of life can be outlined in some way at the very beginning of existence. Jamróg analyzes the tension between what is determined and what can be shaped independently. She wonders whether we are the authors of our own biographies or the executors of a pre-written structure. The exhibition thus becomes a proposal for reflection on the origins of identity: how much of it emerges from our decisions and how much from areas to which we have no access but which constantly shape us.

Curator and author of the text: Marta Kudelska