In his work Manski is drawn to the challenges of constructing a language of metaphors in which meanings and materials fuse to open up new visual fields. The artist draws from a reservoir of allegories and archetypes; transforming and reversing meanings, to create a modern mythology where widespread fascinations and fears take on new forms.
His series Onania is an ironical perspective on modern beauty, sex and the advertisment industry. The Onaniser is a masturbation machine, presented to the audience via hipnotic video commercial and designed to give ultimate pleasure, fulfillment and happines. Through its fascade of breakthrough technology it achieves the confidence of potential consumers. Onania builds the myth of an ultimate product spreading uncontrolllably; an incurable scourage.
Born in Poland. Lives in London, UK
Education:
Master of Arts, 2010, Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, London, UK
Master of Arts, 2007, Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, Poland
Selected projects:
2011, Hybrydity and Mutation, The Old Truman Brewery, London, UK
2011, Not Quite a Baker's Dozen, The Artium Gallery, London School of Economocs, London, UK
