Anna Barlik (b. 1985, Warsaw), "Connection Lost," 2025

Literature
"Lost Connection" / "Lost Connection" is a work that transforms given objects into a sculptural and compositional consideration. It is a subversive development of the earlier series Connections, which was created this year in New York and continues in the artist's studio. It consists of two formally similar elements that, despite their clear visual relationship, function as independent, separated units. Their form and compositional arrangement suggest continuity and interdependence, but the physical interruption of this connection becomes the main carrier of meaning.

The viewer instinctively seeks a relationship between the objects, trying to "connect" them by sight and meaning, but encounters an absence - a break, a broken line and distance. It is this absence that becomes the crux of the work: a symbolic "loss of connection" that resonates not only formally, but also emotionally and socially. The work touches on themes of broken ties, communication gaps and unfinished relationships, while remaining an open interpretive space.

Biography
Visual artist whose work focuses on sculpture, site-specific installations and drawing. Her artistic practice is based on the exploration of space - both physical and perceptual - and the relationship that occurs between man, form and environment. She studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Łódź (2004-2007) and concurrently at the Department of Sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw (2005-2010), where she received her doctorate in fine arts in 2017. In 2008, she held a scholarship at the Universität der Künste in Berlin. She received her habilitation in 2025 and currently works as a professor at the Polish-Japanese Academy of Information Technology in Warsaw. Her works have been presented in numerous solo and group exhibitions in Poland and abroad. An important moment in her career was the realization of a sculpture as part of the Datament exhibition in the Polish Pavilion at the 2023 Venice Architecture Biennale, presented a year later at the Zachęta National Gallery of Art.