Laura Pawela | Krzysztof Skarbek: portretwłasny.pl

Whether considered inventive or mechanical, the juxtaposition of works by Krzysztof Skarbek and Laura Pawela constitutes a kind of exhibition machine, capable of generating new meaning from the works placed together and of setting the viewers’ thinking in motion (including that of the author of this text). Juxtaposing these works undoubtedly exposes them to a relationship with one another. A “juxtaposition” as an “exposure to relation” may reveal something in the works or produce something within them; diminish or overemphasise the importance of certain features; redistribute the emphases; completely change the articulation of a given work; or even transform it by suggesting interpretive ideas not previously considered by the viewer.