Colorless Green Ideas Sleep Furiously, 2020, dimension vary, VR cropainting (crochet + painting), TILT file
(needs VR goggles to be experienced in its full glory), COA provided.

statement:

In stillness I found my true self. My mind manifested unheard sounds and unseen colors. Love is an angel disguised as lust. The things you see when you stop looking with your eyes. Never forget why you fell in love in the first time. We are divine beings having human experience. Trust your own soul.

Art and life are inseparable.
Olek was born in 1978, in a communist Poland. They grew up in a place that was very stingy with possibilities and granted them no eccentricities. They felt like they had to yank up their skirt, expose their bruised knees and bolt the hell out of there.
Olek graduated from Adam Mickiewicz University in Poland with a degree in cultural studies. In New York, they rediscovered their ability to crochet, Holland Cotter described their installation as “a tour-de-force”, and since then they have started their crocheted madness.
Olek's work has been exhibited in galleries, museums (Avesta Museum, Sweden; The Brooklyn Museum; Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Netherlands; Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC; the Urban Nation Museum, Germany; Fluctuart Museum, Paris) and public spaces worldwide and featured in numerous publications such as The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, New York Magazine, TIME Magazine, Vogue Italia, Newsweek/ Daily Beast, Village Voice, Vibe Magazine, Artinfo, PBS, CNN, CBS, ABC and NBC. They are the recipient of many rewards and been selected for various residencies around the world; and drag a tail of dance performance sets and costumes too numerous to mention.


Olek received the Ruth Mellon Award for Sculpture, was selected for the residency program at Sculpture Space, twice at Instituto Sacatar in Brazil, Lower East Side Rotating Studio Program in NYC, LMCC in NYC, Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia, Villa Alliv in Marseille, France and for 2020, Mattress Factory, Pittsburg. They are a winner of apex art gallery's commercial competition. Olek was an artist in an independent collective exhibition, Waterways, during the 49th Venice Biennale and a featured artist in Two Continents Beyond, at the 9th International Istanbul Biennale.

Now, Olek can be found in their little cave in Brooklyn weaving a new reality in VR in self-isolation

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