Coalition of Waters
Baltic Gallery of Contemporary Art, Ustka, Poland,
2025
https://bgsw.pl/en/coalition-of-waters/
The great camouflage
250 x 200 cm, blue clay, floating wood, beads, prints, acrylic paste on board,
2025
The plant, free, silent, proud
250 x 200 cm, blue clay, floating wood, beads, prints, acrylic paste on board,
2025
The artist’s compositions are interlacing micro- and macro-perspectives, opening up new ways of looking at the world – always relational, like a nested, layered story. Old cartographies depict shipping trade lines and the ocean currents encircling the globe. As fragmented elements they refer to different models of thought: both European and those of other cultures, which had established connections long before the so-called Age of Discovery.
Through juxtapositions of diverse materials, the artist seeks to construct a fluid relationship with the world, expressing the dissolve between the human body and its geographic terrain. The volumetric surfaces inhabit rituals imbedded in crafts, and the material memory in the object. The use of blue clay and collected driftwood transforms into a watery realm, endowed with its own agency. This motif of fluidity is rooted in the ecofeminist thought of Suzanne Césaire, whose writings inspired Weber’s collages. Césaire’s surrealist essays, predating Édouard Glissant’s reflections, were filled with vivid metaphors that explored the boundless potential of environmental transformation.
Text by Agnieszka Kilian
Photo Credits to Alina Żemojdzin