Teresa Pągowska Shadow Self

Thaddaeus Ropac presents the first UK exhibition of painter Teresa Pągowska (1926–2007), spanning five decades of her practice. A key figure in post-war Polish art, Pągowska is recognised for her sensitive depictions of the female figure and her hybrid, interspecies characters. Her enigmatic compositions, while not completely abstract, reject outright representation to evoke an intimate, otherworldly dimension. Through the recurring motif of the shadow, the exhibition will trace the development of her practice from the early 1960s to the mid 2000s, featuring paintings from her major series alongside a selection of works on paper.