Woś lays down thinned oil and then washes part of it away, so figures and objects surface very slowly out of the traces left behind, and I am never quite sure of any of them. The range of sources she draws on is hard to even imagine: Renaissance painting, Christian myth, French realism, New German cinema and amateur pornography. That is the kind of company that can meet on a single canvas.
The painter
Joanna Woś (born 1991) studied in Daniel Richter's class at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna. She lays down thinned oil and partly washes it away, so that figures and objects surface only slowly, never fully certain, drawing on a startling range of sources from Renaissance painting to New German cinema. Her work is held by the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw.