Hydrolyzed animal collagen and blood form the basis of this ephemeral sculptures, which continues to transform and eventually disintegrate over time. Embracing decay as part of the process, the work reflects on cycles of life, death, and material return. Its impermanence foregrounds core themes in the artist’s practice: time, transformation, memory, identity, and the body. Flesh and Blood becomes both a physical and symbolic meditation on what remains—and what inevitably fades. By choosing flesh and blood—both symbolically and literally—I confront the visceral, the mortal, and the intimate. These materials carry ancestral memory, ritual connotations, and bodily truths. In their fragility, they become sites for reflection: What does it mean to hold form, to lose it, to return to matter.

flesh and blood  (2018)

MAGDALENA  DUKIEWICZ