Sylvia Batycka - On the threshold
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Sylvia Batycka’s original 2023 watercolour painting, On the threshold, is a portrait signed by the artist.
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**Sylvia Batycka — On the threshold, 2023
Sylvia Batycka is a contemporary artist whose practice explores female narratives, memory and aesthetics of absence. Working from the intersection of painting and photographic source material, she investigates how images shape our understanding of identity and how traces of the past persist in the present.
In this work, the painted figure is set against a dark, heavily textured ground. The contrast between the lightness of the figure and the density of the surrounding surface creates a tension between presence and concealment. The work engages with the visual language of portraiture, while leaving the relationship between the figure and her surroundings open to interpretation.
Batycka’s wider practice examines the ways femininity is represented, remembered and reimagined through images. Rather than treating the past as something fixed, her paintings explore its continuing presence in the contemporary imagination.
**Artwork details**
- **Artist:** Sylvia Batycka
- **Nationality:** Polish
- **Title:** On the threshold
- **Date:** 2023
- **Medium:** Watercolour on paper
- **Dimensions:** 15x30cm
- **Signature:** signed on the back
- **Provenance:** From the artist's studio, unless otherwise specified.
- **Condition:** Excellent
- **Framing:** unframed
- **Shipping:* shipped in enforced flat packaging
The artwork is an original work. Further documentation, including a certificate of authenticity, can be specified where applicable.
**Sylvia Batycka — On the threshold, 2023
Sylvia Batycka is a contemporary artist whose practice explores female narratives, memory and aesthetics of absence. Working from the intersection of painting and photographic source material, she investigates how images shape our understanding of identity and how traces of the past persist in the present.
In this work, the painted figure is set against a dark, heavily textured ground. The contrast between the lightness of the figure and the density of the surrounding surface creates a tension between presence and concealment. The work engages with the visual language of portraiture, while leaving the relationship between the figure and her surroundings open to interpretation.
Batycka’s wider practice examines the ways femininity is represented, remembered and reimagined through images. Rather than treating the past as something fixed, her paintings explore its continuing presence in the contemporary imagination.
**Artwork details**
- **Artist:** Sylvia Batycka
- **Nationality:** Polish
- **Title:** On the threshold
- **Date:** 2023
- **Medium:** Watercolour on paper
- **Dimensions:** 15x30cm
- **Signature:** signed on the back
- **Provenance:** From the artist's studio, unless otherwise specified.
- **Condition:** Excellent
- **Framing:** unframed
- **Shipping:* shipped in enforced flat packaging
The artwork is an original work. Further documentation, including a certificate of authenticity, can be specified where applicable.
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Edition
Original
Artist
Sylvia Batycka
Title of artwork
On the threshold
Technique
Watercolour painting
Signature
Hand signed
Country of origin
Germany
Year
2023
Condition
Excellent condition
Height
30 cm
Width
15 cm
Weight
10 g
Depiction/theme
Portrait
Style
Contemporary
Period
2020+
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