Drawing on her academic training, Kandracienka demonstrates a refined technical mastery, expressed through dynamic, broad brushstrokes that seem to effortlessly flow across the canvas.

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"The dense air of summer is softened by cold autumn dew, as we gather a harvest of joyful memories from dawn to dusk, like swimming from buoy to shore and back again. My series When the Summer Lusted Forever looks back at my own formative years while also reflecting on the childhood of my children, who are now teenagers. Climbing trees, hanging on playground bars in the city park, collecting chance forest treasures—branches, beautiful stones—these are just some of the small tablets of exploration. Trees fill this series, where I blend close observations of this summer with recollections of earlier ones. The works also touch upon that fragile age when we longed to understand what it meant to grow up, yet could not fully grasp the consequences of that passage into adulthood. Young boys on the cusp of manhood—a time that feels particularly complicated for them. There are so many conflicting demands, so many mixed signals. Perhaps that is why red and blue recur throughout this series. Color helps anchor memory to a specific moment. Red—linked to energy, but also to the stop sign—becomes a symbol that grows more layered with experience, carrying both urgency and restraint. As with adolescence itself, what begins in simplicity deepens into nuance and complexity."

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Tania Kandracienka was born in 1980 and she lives and works in Warsaw, Poland

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