Kasia Zawadzka, known better as Skinny-Red-Head or Skinny-Art (°1987, Pruszkow, Poland) is one of the pioneers of World self-suspension Shibari performance with her unique dynamic style. Kasia was first introduced to ropes in 2011, as a model. In 2012 she started tying, attending workshops and eventually experimenting with self-suspension.
She has worked with some of the world leading rope practitioners including Kinoko Hajime, Saki Kamijoo, Fred RX, WykdDave, Garth Knight and Esinem, to name a few.
Since 2011 she attended number of various workshops and classes such as Aerial Dance; General Drawing and Paintin; Pyrotechnics; Light Designing for the theatre; Dance and Theatre Workshops; Shibari Art workshops. In 2016 graduated from Diploma in Physical Theatre Practice in Edinburgh. Always educating herself to help her art practice to advance into higher levels.
She creates performances, drawings and images with a story behind. By applying abstraction, Zawadzka creates intense personal moments masterfully created by means of rules and omissions, acceptance and refusal, luring the viewer round and round in circles.
Her performances doesn’t reference recognizable form. The results are deconstructed to the extent that meaning is shifted and possible interpretation becomes multifaceted. By choosing mainly formal solutions, she seduces the viewer into a world of ongoing equilibrium and the interval that articulates the stream of daily events. Moments are depicted that only exist to punctuate the human drama in order to clarify our existence and to find poetic meaning in everyday life.
Her works sometimes radiate a cold and latent violence. At times, disconcerting beauty emerges. The inherent visual seductiveness, along with the conciseness of the exhibitions, further complicates the reception of their manifold layers of meaning. By examining the ambiguity and origination via retakes and variations, she tries to develop forms that do not follow logical criteria, but are based only on subjective associations and formal parallels, which incite the viewer to make new personal associations.
Her works never shows the complete structure. This results in the fact that the artist can easily imagine an own interpretation without being hindered by the historical reality. By emphasising aesthetics, she tries to increase the dynamic between audience and author by objectifying emotions and investigating the duality that develops through different interpretations.
Her works are based on formal associations which open a unique poetic vein. Multilayered images arise in which the fragility and instability of our seemingly certain reality is questioned. Kasia Zawadzka currently lives in Edinburgh and travels for work Worldwide.
Contact directly for inquiries skinnyredhead@wp.pl
