Sylvia Batycka - In the process

**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:** In the process
- **Date:** 2023
- **Medium:** watercolour on paper
- **Dimensions:** 30x15 cm
- **Signature:** signed on the back
- **Provenance:** From the artist's studio, unless otherwise specified.
- **Condition:** excellent
- **Framing:** [Framed / unframed]
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The artwork is an original work. Further documentation, including a certificate of authenticity, can be specified where applicable.

Selected Exhibitions:

‘Tell me more”, City Lit Gallery, London, 2026

‘Common ground’, Larry Gallery, Kortrijk, 2026

‘I want it darker’, Atelier Obscura, Berlin, 2025, solo

‘Transformative togetherness’, The Green Hill Gallery, Berlin, 2025

‘A woman place is everywhere’, The Cello Factory, London, 2022

‘Female Narratives’, One Paved Court, London, 2021, solo

The ING Discerning Eye, London, 2020