\u201eSystematic breaks \u2013 fluidity suspended and chaotic, calm is not meditative but more like the silence before a storm. Tension is a constant element of the images, carefully masked by colorful, floral compositions. The mystification is nevertheless impermanent, torn, unstable, giving rise to uncontrolled decay. Illusion dissipates, revealing rot \u2013 the queer performance is only a performance. Otherness and oddity lead directly to \u2013 indeed \u2013 the incessant becoming, or rather, metamorphosis. In this cycle of life-death, change, and the fruit-and-flower riot of colors, there is something hypnotic.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Jakub Wydra, excerpt from the review of the exhibition “Rajskie ptaki”, Restart Magazine, no. 19, autumn 2025<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“The fleshy, ornate works of Samuel K\u0142oda have something extravagant about them. The birds\u2019 feast by a bowl of fruit (Feast) recalls illusionistic Pompeian painting, but in a more expressive, sketch-like version. The (probably open?) cage in A cage for a canary disappears into space against a backdrop of white lilies and the lush purples and reds of the room \u2013 or perhaps the sky? Fragments of one flower\u2019s petals appear in the foreground, as if we were looking at the scene through the eyes of a \u201cnarrator,\u201d an implied viewer. If so, we also see \u201cour own\u201d tanned leg resting against the wall. A sultry, summer scene with a sad canary”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Wiktoria Kozio\u0142, excerpt from a review of the exhibition “100 Years of Community” at the Labirynt Gallery in Lublin, Miej Miejsce, February 2025<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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