opening of the exhibition Zofia Pałucha „Mother of One” | Warsaw Gallery Weekend 2026

Mother of One

Zofia Pałucha

Opening of the exhibition as a part of Warsaw Gallery Weekend 2026

September 18 – 20, 2026, 11AM – 7PM

Exhibition: 18.09 – 7.11.2026

Zofia Pałucha Trafficker’s Friends and Business Partners, 2023

olej na płótnie150 x 250 cm

Here, love is not a feeling but a principle — that which connects scattered and separate things. Zofia Pałucha paints from photographs — press, film, private, and police — and moves between them without changing her tone. Tenderness coexists here with violence, and personal experience with the story of someone the artist will never meet. She does not establish a hierarchy between them, and that is the very point of the exhibition: the moment when different lives cease to be separate, if only for a moment.

In her latest exhibition, Zofia Pałucha examines one of the most common — and at the same time reductive — descriptions of identity on social media. “A mother of one” is not just information about family status; it is a label that, in the digital world, is meant to define a woman, assigning her a specific practical and social value. The artist shows that behind the innocent phrase “bio” lies a whole spectrum of experiences: from the biological hardships of motherhood, through voyeurism, to systemic violence. This is an exhibition about the invisible. Pałucha’s paintings resemble a crime scene report or an X-ray. The author lays bare the mechanisms of power and desire, depicting women as objects of perpetual judgment — whether they are climbing stairs, expecting a child, or falling victim to human traffickers. This is a brutally honest portrait of the present day, in which the body is both a temple and a commodity.

curator: Marianna Łomża

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