Description
Magdalena Wysocka [b.1987, Poland] and Claudio Pogo [b.1978, Germany] are a Berlin based artist duo who have been working together since 2016. With backgrounds in printmaking and photography, their work bridges a variety of related mediums, from large-scale printed canvas works to handmade photobooks. Their practice is centred around collecting and re-contextualising found imagery.
This body of work explores a simple truth: nothing stays the same forever. In nature, everything exists in a constant state of change. Things grow, shift, break down and rebuild. A flower blooms and fades. Stone gradually turns to dust. The works in this series sit inside that cycle, not trying to stop it, but paying attention to it.
Wysocka / Pogo work with found photographs, books and archival material, taking images that once had a clear purpose and removing them from their original context. These fragments are then carefully reworked into something new, where meaning is allowed to change and multiply rather than settle into a single explanation.
Their practice spans printmaking, handmade books and large-scale works on canvas. For the canvases, they use risography in an unconventional way. Instead of producing identical prints, the process becomes a tool for making unique works. Ink, pressure and imperfections all play an active role, turning repetition into variation and chance into a collaborator.
Rather than aiming for polished or perfect results, the artists leave signs of the process visible. Slight misalignments, smudges and distortions are part of the work, not mistakes to be corrected. What emerges is a sense of fragility and movement, images that feel in flux rather than fixed.
Nothing here is meant to feel final or complete. The work reflects an ongoing state of becoming: something forming, breaking down and reforming all at once. Like the natural world, it suggests that things are always changing, always shifting, always in the process of growing or falling apart.
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