polyurethane resin, height 48x45x45 cm, plexiglass base 28.5 x 28.5 x 5.5 cm, 2021
Kamila Stępniak is a graduate of the W. Strzemiński Academy of Fine Arts in Łódź at the Faculty of Design and Interior Design, where she received her diploma in 2009 in the Product Development Studio under the direction of Dr. Krzysztof Chróścielewski. Fascinated by the most famous and interesting interior and object designers, she also strives to maintain a dialogue between object and space.
She has always been interested in the pleasant and humorous works of the Dadaists and Pop Art artists, such as Duchamp's "Fountain," Andy Warhol's Campbell Soup or Jeff Koons' balloon animals. She is of the opinion that "Art should be something like a good armchair in which to rest from physical fatigue." -as Henri Matisse used to say.Inspiration from pop art has breathed life into her design of a strawberry, a waffle armchair and a series of gemstones.Kamila is also involved in painting, where she places her characters in correlation with futuristic objects and mechanisms.She lives and works in Lodz on a daily basis.
