Katarzyna Sienkiewicz, Bats circumnavigated, 2021

Encaustic, schagmetal, canvas, 60 x 90 cm, signed on the back

Originally from Podlasie, she currently lives in Warsaw. She graduated from Artistic Textile at the High School of Fine Arts in Suprasl (2011) and Painting at the Institute of Fine Arts of the Maria Curie-Skłodowska University in Lublin (2017). She is a representative of the Belarusian minority in Poland and has written two volumes of poetry in Belarusian. She participated in the internationally acclaimed group exhibition "The World Doesn't Believe in Tears" at the Arsenal Gallery in Bialystok (2022), and led an original workshop on Podlasie kapa design there, and later an analogous one on Belarusian ritual towel at the Political Criticism Luminary in Warsaw. In 2023 she had a solo exhibition entitled. "Belarusian Root" at the Rotary Cultural Center Downtown, and in the previous one she exhibited a set of 40 paintings - ornaments designed with artificial intelligence, common to Belarus and Ukraine. In her painting, she imitates the weaving of Podlasie and Belarus, especially the traditional pereborah technique.