soft crossing
Magdalena Skupinska
soft crossing
13 March – 26 April 2025
Maximillian William is pleased to present soft crossing, Magdalena Skupinska’s fourth solo exhibition at the gallery. Skupinska’s practice takes shape through the slow and meditative work of gathering, grinding, and layering – altered by time, steeped in the rhythms of growth and decay. Her works do not settle into stillness, but emerge from the earth, formed by the elements, taking pigment and texture from nature’s own store.
Skupinska works with pigments in their most elemental form, turning to plant fibres, minerals, and organic matter that carry the imprint of their origins. In her hands, painting ceases to be confined to canvas and frame. Chamomile and turmeric settle into the surface, while ashwagandha and holy basil yield their quiet, earthen hues. Alkanet, rich and intense in its near-black tones, creates smooth, velvety expanses, while hibiscus, with its distinctive cracking texture, fractures as it dries. The work breathes with the pulse of its making.
Rooted in this material process, the compositions are landscapes and objects at once – embedded in the physical world, yet gesturing beyond it, towards something elemental and ancient. The textures bear the weight of time, of hands shaping and reshaping, of layers formed not only by the sweep of a brush but through touch, pressure, alchemy.
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