Myszkowiak’s work arises from a sphere where sculptural craft, corporeality, and everyday experience coexist and enter into dialogue. The artist employs classic sculptural materials – wood, metal, and plastics – combining them with everyday objects, allowing her to tap into their semantic resources and evoke new meanings and associations. She strives to express herself through materials and their physical properties, as well as cultural significance.
A central thread in her practice is the exploration of personal experiences, such as living with atopic dermatitis or observing one’s own existence in the world, which become a starting point for reflection on discomfort, delight, and corporeality. Her works – sculptures, installations, and drawings – are the result of intense impressions or reflections, often operating within a field of ambivalence, provoking both anxiety and delight.
The artist works within a rich network of cultural references, drawing inspiration from literature, poetry, and music, which become an integral part of her practice. The titles of her works sometimes come from literary texts or musical pieces, weaving an additional semantic dimension into the work. An example is the sculpture I am here and yet I am not here (PL: Jestem, a trochę mnie nie ma) whose title is taken from Joanna Longić’s piece mięsień (Tęskno), and its visual structure references the nomenclature of the musical world – visually loud versus deaf (obverse/reverse).
The artist’s practice places great emphasis on craftsmanship as a space for experimentation and a carrier of meaning. Sculptural matter is not merely a raw material for forming objects, but a medium. Myszkowiak searches for the most appropriate creative method for a given task, which leads her to frequently explore, but also to set aside previously mastered techniques. She weaves metal, sews paper, shreds wood – all of this seems necessary and appropriate in the context of her work; it also significantly influences the sensory and intuitive reception of her sculptures.