Aleksandra Ilkiewicz is a doctoral candidate at the Władysław Strzemiński Fine Arts Academy in Łódź, Poland and she also runs the printing workshops at the Book Art Museum in Łódź addressed to students of the printmaking and graphic design at the Academy of Fine Arts in Łódź.

Aleksandra arrived at ´ace as part of the agreement that Fundación´ace has with the Academy of Fine Arts of Lodz, institution where the artist studied, and with PATA (International Summer Courses -Printmaking and Textile Art). As part of this exchange, the ´acePIRAR—Artist-in-Residency International Program, hosted by Fundación´ace, in collaboration with RAP—Residencias Artísticas Panal by Panal361 and the PATA International Courses (Print Art and Textile Art) carried out by the Polish academy during the European summer.

Aleksandra works in collaboration with Przemek Hoffer. The duo produces audio-visual projects in the areas of techno, deep techno and dub techno, and also prints metal types every day, looking for positive vibrations at the same time. In this residency period they will be working together on a new project called Shadows of the City.

ARTIST STATEMENT

I am exploring issues related to the remediation of digital and analogue orders as well as indirectly existing noise consisting in creating interferences, making them an effect and an artistic subject in the publication of fanzines. I am looking for authentic and everyday experiences that I find on the streets of Buenos Aires. I consider graphic statement as a process in which it is not about understandable but about creative involvement.