‘Oppressed’ by Tomasz Górnicki

The triptych consists of three pieces the bust of a woman tied around with a dark wire that has left deep marks on her skin. The sculpture has been placed on a niche in one of Warsaw’s many underpass.
Not far away there is an other bust, but this time it has been sculpted in a way that it covered with a black bin bag. The bust has been placed just over a perfectly drawn and strategically placed dripping black stripe of painting of about the same wide of the sculpture, working as a to-dimensional pedestal.

The third piece consists of the head of a man surrounded by the same kind of metallic wire as in the first one, but this time placed against a plain concrete wall covered by graffiti. His expression is severe, as severe as the words we read just bellow it, “Oppressed”, a word that became the title of this enigmatic triptych.

Together, the three pieces speak of oppression; religious, political, cultural, sexual, etc. all, according to the artist, very present in today’s Polish reality. Have a look at the images and judge by yourself.