Katarzyna Rumińska/ FDM Fusion

Katarzyna Rumińska/ FDM Fusion / 17.01.2025 - 14.02.2025

From 17 January, visitors to the City Gallery will have the opportunity to view a solo, cross-sectional exhibition by Katarzyna Rumińska, a Toruń-based artist who has made 3D printing the cornerstone of her creative practice.

Katarzyna Rumińska graduated in Intermedia and Multimedia from the Faculty of Fine Arts at Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń. Her artistic journey began with experiments in virtual reality, but she soon transitioned to materialising her 3D projects, moving them from the digital realm into the physical world. Since 2018, when she began creating what she terms “object-images”, Rumińska has consistently explored their form, focusing on spatial, colour, and textural qualities. She also incorporates elements of movement and light into her work. Of particular significance in the meanings and themes Rumińska conveys is the contrast between the rigid, utilitarian nature of plastic and the delicacy and sensuality of materials such as tulle, canvas, upholstery fabrics, and hand-woven or embroidered craft elements.

In the narrative layer, the artist uses the modularity of her works to reference the human collective as a living, constantly functioning tissue. The formal, textural, spatial, and colour heterogeneity of the objects enables Rumińska to reflect on society – its diversity and stratification, along with the resulting implications – and on the relationship between individuals and society, encompassing the human need for community and the sense of being lost. In her exploration, the artist presents the concept of community in two ways: as a mass, subject to categorisation and statistical analysis, expressed in numbers, and as a collective shaped by historical experience and united by tradition, culture, and customs. The sharply defined, geometric forms and straight lines convey a detached, analytical perspective on society, while the harmonising, irregular shapes with flowing outlines introduce an emotional dimension to the works.

The exhibition title, which refers to Rumińska’s 3D printing technique (Fused Deposition Modeling), also alludes to the cross-sectional nature of the Wrocław exhibition, which showcases a substantial portion of the artist’s diverse activities. Above all, it encapsulates the core idea of her creative practice, described by the curator, Katarzyna Zahorska, as: …the search for spaces and moments in between. Balancing on the blurry and permeable boundary between the digital and the material worlds, the artist finds that small fissures through which fragments of one universe force their way into the other. By creating situations where the two realms intersect and intermingle, the artist breaks free from the dualistic phantasm of modernity, highlighting its inherent vagueness and ambivalence.

The exhibition is on view until 14 February 2025.
Curator: Katarzyna Zahorska