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EMILIA DURKA

Painter / Landscape Architect

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BORN 

Born in 1992 in Warsaw, Poland.

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EDUCATION             

MS in Historical Gardens and Ecosystem Services, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid

PgD in Urban Design, Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts

AA in Sostenible Fashion Design, Escola d'Art i Superior de Disseny de València

BS in Landscape Architecture, Warsaw University of Life Sciences

Scholarships at Ohio State University and Universidad Politécnica de Valencia

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ARTIST STATEMENT

I prefer to talk about myself in the first person.

I prefer Rohmer movies. I prefer wild cats. 

I prefer the beaches along the Vistula.

I prefer Houellebecq to Homer. 

I prefer primitivism to abstraction.

I prefer myself liking people to myself loving mankind.

I prefer the sea to the ocean. 

I prefer having eye drops with me, just in case.

I prefer rainy nights to cloudy days.

I prefer not to claim that I already understand everything.

I prefer not to talk about silence.

I prefer conversation to preaching monologues. 

I prefer long walks to taking shortcuts.

I prefer to live in the here and now,

not chasing the podium of the future. 

I prefer intimate breathing in love

to beautiful words on the phone.

I prefer green eyes because they are uncommon.

I prefer earth to concrete.

I prefer preciousness to plastic.

I prefer wooden parquet floors and white walls.

I prefer chaos in space to blandness.

I prefer to have secrets. 

I prefer Tove Jansson's fairy tales to the front page news.

I prefer poets who fantasize to politicians who make promises.

I prefer many words that I haven’t mentioned here

to many words I’ve also left unsaid.

I prefer simple zeros to scattered pennies. 

I prefer not to judge.

I prefer not to ask if it is for sure.

I prefer the freedom of choice.

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I prefer the absurdity of painting pictures

to the absurdity of not painting them.

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SELECTED EXHIBITIONS:
2023, O.S.D. 1 (solo exhibition), Warsaw, Poland [upcoming]
2022, Nit d’art, Consell Insular de Menorca (group exhibition), Mahón, Spain
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COLLABORATION  

ToTuArt Gallery in Warsaw, Poland

The Flat Gallery on Menorca, Balearic Islands

Vilarcangel Artist Residency, Valencia, Spain

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