Coloured pencils on birch plywood
57 × 46 cm
2025
A shift in perception lies at the centre of Anna Maleska’s practice. With a refined awareness of materiality and colour, she extracts familiar objects from their functional context and transforms them into a new aesthetic order. What at first appears as a simple line may, on closer inspection, reveal itself as a fragment of an everyday object - both familiar and strange. This deliberate disruption opens space for new readings and unexpected perspectives, inviting reflection. Rather than focusing on destruction, Maleska draws attention to what lies beneath the surface and reveals what is usually hidden.
Through her experimental use of wooden pencils, Maleska creates works that sharpen perception and question how meaning emerges through the act of looking. Seeing itself becomes the subject - a dynamic, multilayered process unfolding between work and viewer.
Her works function less as representations than as conceptual figures in space: formally reduced, precisely placed, and charged with visual tension. Beneath this formal clarity lies a personal engagement with memory, emotion, and existential themes, translated into a clear visual language.
Coloured pencils on birch plywood
57 × 46 cm
2025
A shift in perception lies at the centre of Anna Maleska’s practice. With a refined awareness of materiality and colour, she extracts familiar objects from their functional context and transforms them into a new aesthetic order. What at first appears as a simple line may, on closer inspection, reveal itself as a fragment of an everyday object - both familiar and strange. This deliberate disruption opens space for new readings and unexpected perspectives, inviting reflection. Rather than focusing on destruction, Maleska draws attention to what lies beneath the surface and reveals what is usually hidden.
Through her experimental use of wooden pencils, Maleska creates works that sharpen perception and question how meaning emerges through the act of looking. Seeing itself becomes the subject - a dynamic, multilayered process unfolding between work and viewer.
Her works function less as representations than as conceptual figures in space: formally reduced, precisely placed, and charged with visual tension. Beneath this formal clarity lies a personal engagement with memory, emotion, and existential themes, translated into a clear visual language.